Published April 2019 | Published
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Vector bundles on genus 2 curves and trivectors

  • 1. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 2. ROR icon University of Wisconsin–Madison

Abstract

Given a complex curve C of genus 2, there is a well-known relationship between the moduli space of rank 3 semistable bundles on C and a cubic hypersurface known as the Coble cubic. Some of the aspects of this are known to be related to the geometric
invariant theory of the third exterior power of a 9-dimensional complex vector space. We extend this relationship to arbitrary fields and study some of the connections to invariant theory, which will be studied more in-depth in a followup paper.

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Acknowledgement

Steven V Sam was partially supported by a Miller research fellowship and NSF DMS-1500069.

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