Nodal curves and polarizations with good properties (Q2674027)

Let \(C\) be a nodal curve with \(\gamma\) smooth components. The goal of this paper is giving good polarizations \(w\) for which depth one sheaves on \(C\) reflect some properties that hold for vector bundles on smooth curves. Seshadri introduced the notion of \(w\)-stability (or \(w\)-semistability) for depth one sheaves allowing the construction of moduli spaces of such objects. For any depth one sheaf \(E\) on \(C\), we denote by \(E_i\) the restriction of \(E\) to the component \(C_i\). A polarization \(w\) is a good if for any depth one sheaf \(E\) the difference \( \Delta_w(E)\) of the \(w\)-degree of \(E\) and the sum of degrees of its restrictions \(E_i\) is non-negative and it is zero if and only if \(E\) is locally free. The main result of this paper is the following: Theorem. (Theorem 2.9) Let \(C\) be a nodal curve and let \(w\) be a good polarization on it. Let \(E\) be a depth one sheaf on \(C\). Then we have the following properties: \begin{itemize} \item[(a)] Assume that \(E\) is locally free and, for \(i=1,\dots,\gamma\) , \(E_i\) is stable with \(deg(E_i) = 0.\) Then \(E\) is \(w\)-stable. \item[(b)] If \(E\) is globally generated, then \(deg_w(E) \geq 0.\) \item[(c)] If \(E\) is \(w\)-semistable and \(deg_w(E) > 0\), then \(h^0(E^*)=0.\) \end{itemize} In particular, if \(E=\mathcal{O}_C\) or, more generally, if \(E\) is a line bundle whose restrictions have degree \(0\), then \(E\) is \(w\)-stable. Afterwards, the authors give conditions to obtain good polarizations (see Theorem 3.9). Subsequently, the authors conjectured that if \((C,w)\) is a polarized nodal curve the \(w\)-stability of \(\mathcal{O}_C\) is equivalent that \(w\) is a good polarization. Finally, they proved the conjecture for polarized nodal curve of compact type.