Semistable principal bundles. II: Positive characteristics

Abstract: Let H be a semisimple algebaric group and let X be a smooth projective curve defined over an algebraically closed field k. In the first part of this paper we show that the moduli of semistable principal H-bundles exists once given a "low-height" representation of H. We also show the projectivity of the moduli space if p > psi, where psi is a representation theoritic index. The projectivity is a consequence of a semistable reduction theorem. The irreducibility of the moduli space of semistable H-bundles for simple and simply connected group is obtained as a consequence.

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In his 1976 PhD thesis published in [Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 106, 301--328 (1996; Zbl 0901.14007) and Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 106, 421--449 (1996; Zbl 0901.14008)], \textit{A. Ramanathan} constructed the moduli space of semistable principal \(G\)-bundles on a complex projective curve. The paper under review uses techniques of a paper of \textit{V. Balaji} and \textit{C. Seshadri} [J. Algebra 258, 321--347 (2002; Zbl 1099.14502)] to generalize the above result to positive characteristic. The authors use low height representations to construct moduli spaces of \(G\)-bundles for curves to reduce the problem to the vector bundle case. Unfortunately, this technique already forces assumptions about the characteristic of the base field: the authors construct quasi-projective moduli spaces in high characteristic and they prove the moduli space is projective in even higher (but effectively computable) characteristic. Recently, there appeared two related papers about moduli spaces of \(G\)-bundles in positive characteristic. In the first one, due to \textit{T. Gomez}, the reviewer, \textit{A. Schmitt} and \textit{I. Sols} [Adv. Math. 219, No. 4, 1177--1245 (2008; Zbl 1163.14008); cf. also \url{arXiv:math/0506511}], the authors construct quasi-projective moduli spaces in arbitrary characteristic (and arbitrary dimension). In the second one, due to \textit{J. Heinloth} [Semistable reduction for \(G\)-bundles on curves, preprint, \url{arXiv:math/0602506}], its author proves a much stronger result on semistable reduction theorem in the curve case. This result implies projectivity of the moduli space of \(G\)-bundles in characteristics \(\geq 11\).

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