On the moduli space of the Schwarzenberger bundles. (Q1858301)

The author considers bundles given as the cokernel of an injective map \(I \otimes {\mathcal O}_{\mathbb{P}(V)} \to W\times {\mathcal O}_{\mathbb{P}(V)}(1)\), where \(I,W,V\) are vector spaces of dimensions \(2,n+2\) and \(n+1\), respectively (for \(n\) odd). It is proved that such a bundle is slope stable iff the corresponding point in \(\mathbb{P}({\text{Hom}}(W, I\times V)^*)\) is stable for the natural action of \({\text{SL}}(I)\times {\text{SL}}(W)\). Hence, the component of the Maruyama moduli space of semistable torsion free sheaves of rank \(n\) and Chern polynomial \((1+t)^{n+1}\) containing these bundles is smooth, irreducible and isomorphic to the Kronecker moduli \(N(n+1, 2, n+2)\). In particular, it defines a compactification of the moduli space of rational normal curves in \(\mathbb{P}^n\), extending a construction of \textit{G. Ellingsrud, R. Piene} and \textit{S. Strømme} [in: Space curves. Lect. Notes Math. 1266, 84--96 (1987; Zbl 0659.14027)] for \(n=3\).