Double lines on quadric hypersurfaces (Q1633889)

The authors study families of degree two curves and semistable sheaves on the smooth quadric hypersurface \(Q_3 \subset \mathbb P^4_{\mathbb C}\). For Hilbert polynomial \(\chi (t) = 2t+1\) there are isomorphisms \(\mathbf{Hilb}_{\chi (t)}(Q_3) \cong {\mathbf M}_{\chi (t)} (Q_3) \cong \mathbb G (2,4)\) where \({\mathbf M}_{\chi (t)} (Q_3)\) is the moduli space of semistable sheaves on \(Q_3\) introduced by \textit{C. T. Simpson} [Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Études Sci. 79, 47--129 (1994; Zbl 0891.14005)] and \(\mathbb G(2,4)\) is the Grassmann variety of \(2\)-planes \(H \subset \mathbb P^4\). Given such a \(2\)-plane \(H \subset \mathbb P^4\), the corresponding curve in the Hilbert scheme is simply \(H \cap Q_3 \subset \mathbb P^4\). Half the paper is dedicated to the more complicated case of curves and sheaves with Hilbert polynomial \(\chi (t) = 2t+2\). Here the Hilbert scheme \(\mathbf{Hilb}_{\chi (t)} (Q_3)\) consists of two rational irreducible components \(\mathcal H_1\) and \(\mathcal H_2\) of dimensions \(9\) and \(6\) which is smooth away from \(\mathcal H_1 \cap \mathcal H_2\). The curves in \(\mathcal H_1\) are not locally Cohen-Macaulay, consisting of a plane conic and an embedded or isolated point while \(\mathcal H_2\) consists of locally Cohen-Macaulay curves; the intersection \(\mathcal H_1 \cap \mathcal H_2\) consists of singular conics with an embedded point at the singularity. The situation is similar to that of \(\mathbf{Hilb}_{\chi (t)} (\mathbb P^3)\) studied by \textit{D. Chen} et al. [Commun. Algebra 39, No. 8, 3021--3043 (2011; Zbl 1238.14012)], where it was also shown that the two families meet transversely along the intersection. The authors prove that \({\mathbf M}_{\chi (t)} (Q_3)\) consists of two irreducible components \(\mathcal M_1\) and \(\mathcal M_2\) of dimension \(6\) corresponding to spaces of conics in \(Q_3\) and pairs of lines in \(Q_3\). Furthermore the moduli space \(\mathbf M^{\alpha}_{\chi (t)} (Q_3)\) of \(\alpha\)-stable pairs introduced by \textit{M. He} [Int. J. Math. 9, 545--598 (1998; Zbl 0936.14008)] consists of two irreducible components \(\mathcal N_1\) and \(\mathcal N_2\) of dimensions \(7\) and \(6\).