Stable vector bundles on curves: numerical invariants of their extremal subbundles (Q4415566)

Let \(X\) be a smooth projective curve of genus \(g\geq 2\) and let \(E\) be a vector bundle on \(X\) of rank \(r\) and degree \(d\). Fix an integer \(t\) with \(1\leq t <r\) and set \(s_t(E)=\text{sup}\{ t\cdot d-r\cdot \text{deg}(F)\) where \(F\) is a rank \(t\) subsheaf of \(E\}\). These integers are called the Lange invariants of \(E\) and they give a stratification of the moduli scheme of stable vector bundles of rank \(r\) and degree \(d\) on \(X\). It is known that if we fix integers \(t,s\) such that \(1\leq t<r\), \(0\leq s<t(r-t)g\) and \(s\) is congruent with \(t\cdot d\) modulo \(r\), then there exist rank \(r\) stable vector bundles \(E\) of degree \(d\) with \(s_t(E)=s\). The aim of the paper under review is to show that the values of the Lange invariants \(s_t(E)\) for different \(t\) are independent of each other. In fact, the author constructs stable vector bundles \(E\) of rank \(r\) and degree \(d\) with prefixed Lange invariants \((s_1, \dots ,s_{r-1})\). Moreover, he describes explicitly the rank \(t\) subbundles \(F\) of \(E\) such that \(s_t(E)=t\cdot d-r\cdot\text{deg}(F)\). These vector bundles are constructed from direct sum of line bundles using elementary transformations of vector bundles following an idea introduced by \textit{B. Russo} and \textit{M. Teixidor i Bigas} [J. Algebr. Geom. 8, 483--496 (1999; Zbl 0942.14013)].