Stable rank 2 vector bundles with Chern-classes \(c_ 1=-1\), \(c_ 2=4\) (Q1069499)

The Horrocks-Mumford bundle [\textit{G. Horrocks} and \textit{D. Mumford}, Topology 12, 63-81 (1973; Zbl 0255.14017)] is essentially the only known indecomposable rank 2 vector bundle on \({\mathbb{P}}_ 4={\mathbb{P}}_ 4({\mathbb{C}})\). It has Chern classes \(c_ 1=-1\), \(c_ 2=4\) and is stable. Moreover it is the cohomology of a monad \[ 0\to 5 {\mathfrak O}(-1)\to 2 \Omega^ 2(2)\to 5 {\mathfrak O}\to 0. \] By this property it is uniquely determined up to an automorphism of \({\mathbb{P}}_ 4\) [the author and \textit{F. O. Schreyer}, ''On the uniquess of the Horrocks-Mumford bundle'', Preprint, Univ. Kaiserslautern (1985)]. In the paper under consideration we prove that any stable 2-bundle on \({\mathbb{P}}_ 4\) with \(c_ 1=-1\), \(c_ 2=4\) is the cohomology of a monad as above. So the fine moduli scheme \(M_{{\mathbb{P}}_ 4}(-1,4)\) is a homogeneous space. Moreover we obtain as a corollary that there exists no stable 2-bundle on \({\mathbb{P}}_ 5\) with \(c_ 1=-1\), \(c_ 2=4\) (as a topological bundle the Horrocks-Mumford bundle can be extended to \({\mathbb{P}}_ 5)\).