The fine moduli space of representations of Clifford algebras

Abstract: Given a fixed binary form

f (u, v)

of degree

d

over a field

k

, the associated emph{Clifford algebra} is the

k

-algebra

C_{f} = k u, v / I

, where

I

is the two-sided ideal generated by elements of the form

with

a l p h a

and

arbitrary elements in

k

. All representations of

C_{f}

have dimensions that are multiples of

d

, and occur in families. In this article we construct fine moduli spaces

U = U_{f, r}

for the irreducible

r d

-dimensional representations of

C_{f}

for each

r g e q 2

. Our construction starts with the projective curve

C s u b s e t m a t h b b P_{k}^{2}

defined by the equation

w^{d} = f (u, v)

, and produces

U_{f, r}

as a quasiprojective variety in the moduli space

m a t h c a l M (r, d_{r})

of stable vector bundles over

C

with rank

r

and degree

d_{r} = r (d + g - 1)

, where

g

denotes the genus of

C

.

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