Projective Poincaré and Picard bundles for moduli spaces of vector bundles over nodal curves (Q2220326)

The authors study vector bundles on the moduli space of stable vector bundles of rank \(n\) with determinant \(L\) where \(L\) is a fixed line bundle of degree \(d\) over a nodal curve \(Y\), denoted by \(U^{'s}_L(n, d)\). The authors prove that the projective Picard bundle on \(U^{'s}_L(n, d)\), the projective Poincare bundle on \(Y \times U^{'s}_L (n, d)\), and the restriction of the projective Poincare bundle to \(\{x\} \times U^{'s}_L(n, d)\) where \(x\) is a smooth point are stable for suitable polarisation. Additionally, they prove that for arithmetic genus \(g \geq 3\) and for \(g = n = 2\), d odd, the Picard group of the moduli space \(U'_L(n, d)\) of semistable vector bundles of rank \(n\) with determinant \(L\) of degree \(d\) is isomorphic to \(\mathbb{Z}\). An important element of the proofs is the bounding of the codimension of various loci.