Spectral curves and compactification of Jacobians (Q1384606)

Let \(\phi : X \rightarrow Y\) be a spectral curve; the first aim in this paper is the study of the correspondence between isomorphism classes of torsion free sheaves of rank 1 on \(X\) and classes of pairs \((E,u)\), where \(E\) is a locally free sheaf on \(Y\) whose rank is \(r=\text{ deg}\phi\) and \(u:E \rightarrow E\otimes {\mathcal L}\) is a homomorphism whose characteristic polynomial defines \(X\), while \({\mathcal L}\) is the invertible sheaf on \(Y\) associated to the spectral curve. It was known that such correspondence is bijective when \(X\) is integral; the first main result in the paper is to show that this is true for any spectral curve. A criterion for stability is given for the pairs \((E,u)\), and it is used to study the morphism \(H: M(r,d,{\mathcal L}) \rightarrow \bigoplus _{i=0}^r H^0(Y,{\mathcal L^{\otimes^i}})\), where \(M(r,d,{\mathcal L})\) is the (coarse) moduli space for pairs \((E,u)\). What is shown is that \(\text{Pic}^0(X)\) is open in a fiber \(H^{-1}(P)\), thus proving that \(H^{-1}(P)\) can be viewed as a compactification of the generalized Jacobian of \(X\).