Stable Higgs bundles on ruled surfaces (Q2195672)

For any smooth projective variety \(X\) defined over an algebraically closed field with characteristic \(0\) an Higgs vector bundle on \(X\) is a pair \((V,\theta)\), where \(V\) is a vector bundle (or torsion-free sheaf) on \(X\), \(\theta: V\to V\otimes \Omega^1_X\) is a morphisn with the integrality condition \(\theta \wedge \theta =0\). For any polarization \(L\) on \(Y\) there are moduli space of \(L\)-stable Higgs bundles and of equivalence classes of \(L\)-semistable Higgs bundles with prescribed Chern classes. Here \(X = \mathbb{P}_C(E)\) is a ruled surface over a smooth curve \(C\) of genus \(g\ge 2\).The author proves that pull-backs \(V \to \pi^\ast(V)\) make essentially an equivalence between stable (or semistable) vector bundles on \(C\) and \(L\)-stable vector bundles on \(X\) with pull-bach \(c_1\) and \(c_2=0\). A tool is the Bogomolov inequality for semistable Higgs bundles \((V,\theta)\) (\(V\) is not necessarily semistable as abstract bundle). In particular (for these \(c_1\)'s and \(c_2=0\) and any rank) there are always semistable pairs on \(X\).