A note on vector bundles on Hirzebruch surfaces (Q550423)

Let \(H\) be a Hirzebruch surface. Earlier results had shown constructions of rank-two vector bundles on \(H\) as extensions of two line bundles [\textit{V. Brînzănescu} and \textit{M. Stoia}, Rev. Roum. Math. Pures Appl. 29, 661--673 (1984; Zbl 0547.14005); \textit{V. Brînzănescu} and \textit{M. Stoia}, Lect. Notes Math. 1056, 34--46 (1984; Zbl 0547.14006); \textit{V. Brînzănescu}, Holomorphic vector bundles over compact complex surfaces. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. 1624. Berlin: Springer-Verlag (1996; Zbl 0848.32024); \textit{J.~E. Brosius}, Math. Ann. 265, 155--168 (1983; Zbl 0503.55012); \textit{R. Friedman}, Algebraic surfaces and holomorphic vector bundles. Universitext. New York, NY: Springer (1998; Zbl 0902.14029)], and by means of a spectral sequence [\textit{N.~P. Buchdahl}, Math. Z. 194, 143--152 (1987; Zbl 0627.14028)]. The authors compare these two ways of construction and their main result is that the first case is a particular case of the latter, if for a given rank-two vector bundle \(M\) we consider its normalisation. They conclude by showing a cohomological criterion for the tiviality of a topologically trivial vector bundle on \(H\) (i.e. a vector bundle whose Chern classes vanish). They present two proofs, one for arbitrary rank, using the Beilinson spectral sequence, and another for rank two, using extensions of line bundles.