The Picard group of the universal moduli space of vector bundles on stable curves (Q1790263)

This article is taken from the author's doctoral thesis, directed by F. Viviani. The author constructs a quasi-compact smooth stack which parametrizes properly balanced vector bundles of rank \(r\) and degree \(d\) on semistable curves of arithmetic genus \(g\). For \(r=1\), this moduli stack coincides with the compactification of the universal Jacobian stack constructed in [\textit{M. Melo}, Math. Z. 263, No. 4, 939--957 (2009; Zbl 1183.14039)]. The main result of this paper is a computation of the Picard group of this moduli stack providing explicit generators. This explicit description implies an analogous one of the Picard groups of two significant open substacks: the universal moduli stack of vector bundles on smooth curves and Schmitt's compactification over the stack of stable curves. There are also some results about the gerbe structure of the universal moduli stack over its rigidification by the natural action of the multiplicative group.