Twisted vector bundles on pointed nodal curves (Q2483772)

The paper under review is the result of an attempt to understand a recent draft of \textit{C.S. Seshadri} [``Moduli spaces of torsion free sheaves and \(G\)-spaces on nodal curves'', preliminary draft, 2002] and is meant as a contribution in the quest for a good compactification of the moduli space (or stack) of \(G-\)bundles on a nodal curve. For finite groups \(G\) the stack of stable maps into \(BG\) has been recently constructed by \textit{D. Abramovich, A. Corti} and \textit{A. Vistoli} [Commun. Algebra 31, No.8, 3547--3618 (2003; Zbl 1077.14034)] by means of the so-called twisted bundles. On the other hand, as shown by the author, the notion of Gieseker vector bundles leads to the construction of the stack of stable maps into \(\text{BGL}_{r}.\) In this note the author establishes a connection between the straightforward generalization of the notion of twisted bundles to the case of the non-finite reductive group \(\text{GL}_{r}\) and Gieseker vector bundles. Theorem 3.4. There exists a natural bijection from the set of all Gieseker vector bundle data on \(({\widetilde{C}}, p_{1}, p_{2})\) to the set of all pairs \((E, \Phi),\) where \(E\) is a vector bundle on \(\widetilde{C}\) and \(\Phi\) is a \(k-\)valued point in \(\text{KGL}(E[p_{1}], E[p_{2}]).\)