Laura Costa

In this note we prove that the moduli space of rank $2n$ symplectic instanton bundles on ${\PP^{2n+1}}$, defined from the well known monad condition, is affine. This result was not known even in the case $n=1$, where the real instanton bundles correspond to self dual Yang Mills $Sp(1)$-connections over the 4-dimensional sphere. The result is proved as a consequence of the existence of an invariant of the multidimensional matrices representing the instanton bundles.

Let X be an n-dimensional, smooth, irreducible, algebraic variety over C and let L be an ample divisor on X. Let MX, L (r; c1,..., cmin (r, n)) denote the moduli space of rank-r, L-stable (in the sense of Mumford and Takemoto) vector bundles E on X with Chern classes ci (E)= ...

Let MX. L (r; cl, c2) be the moduli space of rank r torsion free sheaves E on a smooth, algebraic surface X, G-semistable with respect to an ample divisor L (in the sense of Gieseker-Maruyama) with$ and$ and let MX. L (r; cl, c2) be the open subscheme ...

The main goal of the paper is to generalize Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity for coherent sheaves on projective spaces to coherent sheaves on $n$-dimensional smooth projective varieties $X$ with an $n$-block collection $\cB $ which generates the bounded derived category $\cD ^b({\cO}_X$-$mod)$. To this end, we use the theory of $n$-blocks and Beilinson type spectral sequence to define the notion of regularity of a coherent sheaf $F$ on $X$ with respect to the $n$-block collection $\cB $. We show that the basic formal properties of the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of coherent sheaves over projective spaces continue to hold in this new setting and we compare our definition of regularity with previous ones. In particular, we show that in case of coherent sheaves on $\PP^n$ and for the $n$-block collection $\cB =(\cO_{\PP^n},\cO_{\PP^n} (1), ..., \cO_{\PP^n}(n))$ on $\PP^n$ Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity and our new definition of regularity coincide. Finally, we carefully study the regularity of coherent sheaves on a multiprojective space $\PP^{n_1}\times ... \times \PP^{n_r}$ with respect to a suitable $n_1+... +n_r$-block collection and we compare it with the multigraded variant of the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity given by Hoffman and Wang.

The paper begins by overviewing the basic facts on geometric exceptional collections. Then, we derive, for any coherent sheaf $\cF$ on a smooth projective variety with a geometric collection, two spectral sequences: the first one abuts to $\cF$ and the second one to its cohomology. The main goal of the paper is to generalize Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity for coherent sheaves on projective spaces to coherent sheaves on smooth projective varieties $X$ with a geometric collection $\sigma $. We define the notion of regularity of a coherent sheaf $\cF$ on $X$ with respect to $\sigma$. We show that the basic formal properties of the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of coherent sheaves over projective spaces continue to hold in this new setting and we show that in case of coherent sheaves on $\PP^n$ and for a suitable geometric collection of coherent sheaves on $\PP^n$ both notions of regularity coincide. Finally, we carefully study the regularity of coherent sheaves on a smooth quadric hypersurface $Q_n \subset \PP^{n+1}$ ($n$ odd) with respect to a suitable geometric collection and we compare it with the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of their extension by zero in $\PP^{n+1}$.