On the moduli of reflexive sheaves on a surface with rational double points (Q1204244)

The author studies stable reflexive sheaves on a surface \(X\) with (at most) rational double points. As motivation for this one should think of a surface of general type: The canonical bundle of such a surface is ample on its canonical model, which is a surface with (at most) rational double points, and hence it is natural to compare stable sheaves on the canonical model with sheaves on the surface stable with respect to an ample divisor ``close'' to the canonical divisor. The paper contains two main results. First the author shows that there exists a stable reflexive sheaf with given rank, first Chern class and type of reflexive module at each singular point, provided the second Chern class is sufficiently large. Secondly he analyzes the relation between the moduli space on \(X\) and that on its minimal desingularization \(\tilde X\). Given a reflexive sheaf \(E\) on \(X\) one associates to \(E\) a locally-free sheaf \(\tilde E\) on \(\tilde X\) whose push-forward is isomorphic to \(E\). The author analyzes the moduli spaces of sheaves on \(X\) and \(\tilde X\) near \([E]\) and \([\tilde E]\) respectively, under the assumption that the rank is two, that the moduli space of sheaves on \(\tilde X\) is smooth near \([\tilde E]\), and that \(c_ 1(\tilde E|_ U)=-Z\), where \(Z\) is the fundamental cycle of one singular point \(P\), and \(U\) is a neighborhood of \(Z\). In this case the moduli space on \(X\) has a singularity at \([E]\) which looks just like the singularity of \(X\) at \(P\).