Walls of Gieseker semistability and the Mumford-Thaddeus principle for moduli spaces of sheaves over higher dimensional bases (Q1583920)

It is an interesting problem to study the dependence on the polarization of moduli spaces of Gieseker semistable sheaves on a projective manifold. This can help, in particular, to get insight into the birational geometry of moduli spaces of sheaves. In the two dimensional case this question was studied by \textit{K. Matsuki} and \textit{R. Wentworth} [Int. J. Math. 8, 97-148 (1997; Zbl 0879.14002)]. The paper under review aims to generalize these results to the higher dimensional case. To achieve this, the author uses moduli spaces of parabolic sheaves and the technique of master spaces [see \textit{M. Thaddeus}, J. Am. Math. Soc. 9, 691-725 (1996; Zbl 0874.14042)]. The main result is the following: The notion of Gieseker semi-stability is constant within each of the connected components obtained by removing a finite set from the line segment joining two polarizations of the given projective manifold. If the polarization passes through a rational point (among the removed points) then the moduli spaces are related by a sequence of flips. The new phenomenon, possible in dimension greater than two, is that some of the removed points (``walls'') can be non-rational. The behavior of the moduli spaces around such points is not very well understood. Using master spaces for stable pairs [see \textit{Ch. Okonek, A. Schmitt} and \textit{A. Teleman}, Topology 38, 117-139 (1999; see the preceding review Zbl 0981.14007)], the author describes fiber spaces over the moduli spaces defined by polarizations near a non-rational wall. Again, these fiber spaces are related by flips.