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Some moduli stacks of symplectic bundles on a curve are rational

Algebraic Geometry 2008-09-17 v2

Abstract

Let C be a smooth projective curve of genus at least 2 over a field k. Given a line bundle L on C, we consider the moduli stack of rank 2n vector bundles E on C endowed with a nowhere degenerate symplectic form b:EELb: E \otimes E \to L up to scalars. We prove that this stack is birational to BG_m times an affine space A^s if n and the degree of L are both odd and C admits a k-rational point as well as a line bundle of degree 0 whose square is nontrivial. It follows that the corresponding coarse moduli scheme is rational in this case.

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@article{arxiv.math/0604183,
  title  = {Some moduli stacks of symplectic bundles on a curve are rational},
  author = {Indranil Biswas and Norbert Hoffmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0604183},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

18 pages. v2: minor changes, following the referee's suggestions. published version