Vector bundles with a fixed determinant on an irreducible nodal curve (Q812168)

Let \(X\) be an irreducible nodal curve with a node \(x\), let \(\pi:Y\to X\) be the normalization with \(\pi^{-1}(x)=\{y_1,y_2\}\). A vector bundle of rank \(r\) on \(X\) is equivalent to a pair \((V,\phi)\), where \(V\) is a vector bundle of rank \(r\) on \(Y\) and \(\phi:V_{y_1}\cong V_{y_2}\) is an isomorphism between the fibres, or its graph defines a \(r\)-dimensional subspace of \(V_{y_1}\oplus V_{y_2}\). In other words, \((V,\phi)\) defines a generalized parabolic bundle (GPB) \((V,\Gamma_{\phi}\subset V_{y_1}\oplus V_{y_2})\). The moduli space \(P_Y\) of semistable GPBs on \(Y\) is an irreducible projective variety which contains the moduli space \(\mathcal U^0_X\) of semistable bundles on \(X\) as an open subvariety. Thus \(P_Y\) is a compactification of \(\mathcal U^0_X\). There is another compactification \(\mathcal U_X\) of \(\mathcal U^0_X\), i.e. the moduli space of semistable torsion free sheaves on \(X\). In fact, \(P_Y\) is the normalization of \(\mathcal U_X\). Let \(L\) be a line bundle on \(X\) and \(\mathcal U^0_X(L)\subset\mathcal U^0_X\) be the moduli space of semistable bundles with given determinant \(L\). Let \(\mathcal U_X(L)\subset\mathcal U_X\) be the Zariski closure of \(\mathcal U^0_X(L)\) in \(\mathcal U_X\). The problem now is to find a suitable moduli functor such that \(\mathcal U_X(L)\) is the coarse moduli space of this functor. The author of this paper considers the Zariski closure \(P_Y(L)\subset P_Y\) of \(\mathcal U^0_X(L)\) in \(P_Y\) and proves that \(P_Y(L)\) is the coarse moduli space of a moduli functor. The author also studies the relationship between \(P_Y(L)\) and \(\mathcal U_X(L)\).