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Modular sheaves with many moduli

Algebraic Geometry 2026-01-21 v2

Abstract

We exhibit moduli spaces of slope stable vector bundles on general polarized HK varieties (X,h)(X,h) of type K3[2]K3^{[2]} which have an irreducible component of dimension 2a2+22a^2+2, with aa an arbitrary integer greater than 11. This is done by studying the case X=S[2]X=S^{[2]} where SS is an elliptic K3K3 surface. We show that in this case there is an irreducible component of the moduli space of stable vector bundles on S[2]S^{[2]} which is birational to a moduli space of sheaves on SS. We expect that if the moduli space of sheaves on SS is a smooth HK variety (necessarily of type K3[a2+1]K3^{[a^2+1]}) then the following more precise version holds: the closure of the moduli space of slope stable vector bundles on (X,h)(X,h) in the moduli space of Gieseker-Maruyama semistable sheaves with its GIT polarization is a general polarized HK variety of type K3[a2+1]K3^{[a^2+1]}.

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@article{arxiv.2407.18101,
  title  = {Modular sheaves with many moduli},
  author = {Kieran G. O'Grady},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.18101},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

We improved the presentation by following the comments of an anonymous referee. We fixed an issue having to do with the definition of suitable polarization of a hyperk\"ahler manifold equipped with a Lagrangian fibration, see Subsection 5.3

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