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arXiv1994

Mumford-Thaddeus Principle on the Moduli Space of Vector Bundles on an Algebraic Surface

We study the behavior of the Gieseker space of semistable torsion-free sheaves of rank r and fixed c_1, c_2 on a non-singular projective surface as the polarization varies. It is shown that the ample cone admits a locally finite chamber structure, and that passing a wall adjacent to a pair of chambers has the effect of modifying the moduli space by a (finite) sequence of flips of the type studied by Thaddeus. The key steps are a modification of Simpson's method and the introduction of a "rationally twisted" moduli space. The result is more general but less explicit than the recent work of Ellingsrud-Goettsche (alg-geom/9410005) and Friedman-Qin (alg-geom/9410007).

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arXiv1993

Birational Equivalences of Vortex Moduli

We construct a finite dimensional Kaehler manifold with a holomorphic, symplectic circle action whose symplectic reduced spaces may be identified with the tau-vortex moduli spaces (or tau-stable pairs). The Morse theory of the circle action induces natural birational maps between the reduced spaces for different values of tau which in the case of rank two bundles can be canonically resolved in a sequence of blow-ups and blow-downs.

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