Stability of Arakelov bundles and tensor products without global sections (Q1411960)

Summary: This paper deals with Arakelov vector bundles over an arithmetic curve, i.e. over the set of places of a number field. The main result is that for each semistable bundle \(E\), there is a bundle \(F\) such that \(E \otimes F\) has at least a certain slope, but no global sections. It is motivated by an analogous theorem of \textit{G. Faltings} [cf. J. Algebr. Geom. 2, 507--568 (1993; Zbl 0790.14019)] for vector bundles over algebraic curves and contains the Minkowski-Hlawka theorem on sphere packings as a special case. The proof uses an adelic version of Siegel's mean value formula.