Maximal subbundles of parabolic vector bundles (Q2493482)

Let \(X\) be a complex irreducible smooth projective curve of genus \(g\geq 2\) and \(M(r,d)\) a moduli space of stable parabolic vector bundles over \(X\) of rank \(r\) and degree \(d\) with a fixed parabolic structure. For any parabolic bundle \(E_{\text{par}}\in M(r,d)\) and a subbundle \(F\subset E\) of rank \(r'\) with the fixed parabolic structure induced by \(E_{\text{par}}\), the authors set \(s^{\text{par}}(E_{\text{par}}, F_{\text{par}}):=dr'-\deg(F)r\), where \(F_{\text{par}}\) is \(F\) with the induced parabolic structure. Moreover, if \(E_{\text{par}}\) has at least a subbundle of rank \(r'\) with the fixed induced parabolic structure, then let \(s_{r'}^{\text{par}}(E_{\text{par}})\) be the minimum of \(s^{\text{par}}(E_{\text{par}},F_{\text{par}})\) taken over all such rank \(r'\) subbundles \(F\). The goal of the paper under review is the study of the strata of \(M(r,d)\) defined by the different values of \(s_{r'}^{\text{par}}(E_{\text{par}})\). The proofs are quite technical but very detailed.