Moduli of vector bundles on a compact Riemann surface (Q2536932)

The set \( S \) of isomorphism classes of stable vector bundles of rank \( {n} \) and degree \( d \) on a compact Riemann surface \( X \) of genus \( g \) was shown by Mumford to have a natural structure of a nonsingular quasi-projective variety of dimension \( n^{2}(g-1)+1 \). Seshadri constructed a normal projective variety \( U(n, d) \) which is a compactification of \( S \); the stable points of \( U(n, d) \) are simple points and if \( (n, d)=1 \), then \( {U}({n}, {d}) \) is nonsingular. In this paper it is shown that the simple points are precisely the stable points except when \( g=2, n=2 \) and \( d \) is even. The cases of \( g=2 \), \( {n}=2 \) are examined in detail for \( d=0,1 \). If \( g=2 \), the \( U(2,0) \) is canonically isomorphic to the space of positive divisors on the Jacobian \( J \) of \( X \) algebraically equivalent to \( 2 \vartheta \) where \( \vartheta \) is the theta divisor. If \( S_{1} \) is the space of isomorphism classes of stable bundles over \( X \) of rank 2 with determinant bundle of the form \( L_{{x}}^{-1} \) for some \( {x} \) in \( {X} \), then the quotient of \( {S}_{1} \) by the canonical involution of \( {J} \) is canonically isomorphic to the Klein variety associated to the Kummer surface of \( J \) (obtained as the quotient by the canonical involution).