Mathematical Instantons In Characteristic Two

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Abstract: On P3, we show that mathematical instantons in characteristic two are unobstructed. We produce upper bounds for the dimension of the moduli space of stable rank two bundles on P3 in characteristic two. In cases where there is a phenomenon of good reduction modulo two, these give similar results in characteristic zero. We also give an example of a non-reduced component of the moduli space in characteristic two.


In the beginning of the paper the author shows that several basic results and constructions with vector bundles over \(\mathbb{P}^n\) are valid in any characteristic \(p\). Then he turns to rank 2 bundles on \(\mathbb{P}^n\) and mathematical instantons. He proves that for a rank 2 vector bundle \({\mathcal E}\) with \(c_1=c_1({\mathcal E})\) there is an exact sequence \[ 0\to F^*{\mathcal E}\to S^p{\mathcal E}\to S^{p-2}{\mathcal E}\otimes {\mathcal O}(c_1)\to 0 \] where \(F:\mathbb{P}^n\to \mathbb{P}^n\), \(p\) is the characteristic of the field and \(S^k{\mathcal E}\) are symmetric powers of \({\mathcal E}\). The sequence is especially helpful for \(p=2\), \(c_1=0\), \(n=2\) and used to prove that in such case \({\mathcal E}\) is unobstructed \((h^2 (\text{Hom} ({\mathcal E},{\mathcal E}))=0)\) iff \({\mathcal E}\) is a mathematical instanton bundle, and some other results are given. The results have corollaries for instantons in characteristic 0 with good reduction to characteristic 2.











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