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FABIAN REEDE
Introduction
Moduli spaces of stable sheaves on K3 surfaces are example of hyperkähler manifolds,
that is irreducible holomorphic symplectic manifolds. These are of interest as they arise in
the classification of Kähler manifolds with trivial first Chern class. It is therefore natural
to wonder if moduli spaces of stable sheaves on hyperkähler manifolds of higher dimension
also have interesting properties.
Unfortunately moduli spaces of stable sheaves on higher dimensional varieties behave
badly in general. Furthermore there are not may explicit examples of stable sheaves on
higher dimensional hyperkähler manifolds. There are the tautological bundles on the
Hilbert schemes of points on a K3 surface, see [10],[11] and [12]. A second class is given
by the ”wrong-way” fibers of a universal family of stable vector bundles on a moduli space
of stable vector bundles, see [9] and [13].
In this article we want to give a new class of stable sheaves on Hilbert schemes of points.
For this we use a result by Addington, that says that the integral functor
Φ : Db (X) → Db (X [k] )
with kernel the universal ideal sheaf IZ on X × X [k] is a Pk−1 -functor, see[1].
Our main results can be summarized as follows:
Theorem. Let X be a K3 surface with NS(X) = Zh and assume E is µh -stable locally
free sheaf with Mukai vector v = (r, h, s) such that
v(E)2
χ(E) > + (r + 1)k + 1
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then the image of E under the integral functor Φ : Db (X) → Db (X [k] ) is a µH -stable
locally free sheaf (for some ample class H ∈ NS(X [k] )).
If furthermore v = (r, h, s) is chosen such that MX,h (v) is a fine moduli space and all
sheaves classified are locally free, then the integral functor Φ restricts to a morphism
f : MX,h (v) → M, [E] 7→ [Φ(E)]
which identifies MX,h (v) with a smooth connected component of a certain moduli space M
of stable sheaves on X [k] .
This result is in the same vein as Yoshioka’s results in [15]. There he starts with an
arbitrary K3 surface together with an isotropic Mukai vector v such that Mh (v) is also a
fine moduli space with universal family E. It is well known that Y = Mh (v) is again a
K3 surface. He then proves that the Fourier-Mukai transform ΦE : Db (X) → Db (Y ), an
equivalence in this case, preserves stability (even S-equivalence classes), given that some
numerical conditions are satisfied.
Acknowledgement. I thank Ziyu Zhang for many useful discussions surrounding stable
sheaves, derived categories and hyperkähler manifolds.
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1. Background on Pn -functors
We start by recalling some basic facts about Pn -functors in this section.
Definition 1.1. [1, Definition 4.1] Let A and B be triangulated categories. A functor
F : A → B with adjoints L and R is called a Pn -functor if:
(a) There exists an autoequivalence H of A and an isomorphism
RF ∼
= id ⊕H ⊕ H 2 ⊕ . . . ⊕ H n .
(b) The composition
RǫF
HRF ֒→ RF RF −−→ RF
written in components
H ⊕ H 2 ⊕ . . . ⊕ H n+1 → id ⊕H ⊕ . . . ⊕ H n
has the form
∗ ∗ ··· ∗ ∗
1 ∗ · · · ∗ ∗
0 1 · · · ∗ ∗ .
.. .. . . .. ..
. . . . .
0 0 ··· 1 ∗
(c) There is an isomorphism R ∼= H n L. If A and B both have Serre functors, this condition
n ∼
is equivalent to SB F H = F SA .
We will only focus on the case where A = D b (X) and B = D b (Y ), where X and Y
are two smooth projective varieties. Furthermore we will only consider the case where
F = ΦF is an integral functor with kernel F ∈ D b (X × Y ). In fact, we are only interested
in the case where F is actually a sheaf on X × Y and the autoequivalence is H = [−2].
In this case condition (a) can be rephrased as
RF ∼
= id ⊗H ∗ (Pn , C).
Example 1.2. Let X be a K3 surface. The integral functor
Φ : Db (X) −→ Db (X [k] ), E 7→ Rp∗ (q ∗ E ⊗ IZ ),
having the universal ideal sheaf IZ on X ×X [k] as kernel, is a Pk−1 -functor with associated
autoequivalence H = [−2], see [1, Theorem 3.1, Example 4.2(2)]. Here p : X ×X [k] → X [k]
and q : X × X [k] → X are the projections.
Remark 1.3. The fact that the integral functor Φ is a Pk−1 -functor with associated
autoequivalence H = [−2] has the following helpful consequence: for any two elements
E, F ∈ Db (X) there is an isomorphism of graded vector spaces
Ext∗X [k] (Φ(E), Φ(F )) ∼
= Ext∗X (E, F ) ⊗ H ∗ (Pk−1 , C),
see for example [2, §2.1].
Next we want to study the slope-stability of Φ(E). For this we recall that in our
situation we have
NS(X [k] ) = Zhk ⊕ Zδ,
where hk is the divisor on X [k] induced by the divisor h on X and 2δ is the exceptional
divisor of the Hilbert-Chow morphism X [k] → X (k) . For any coherent sheaf F on X we
denote the associated coherent tautological sheaf by
F [k] := p∗ (q ∗ F ⊗ OZ ) .
Lemma 2.4. Let E be a locally free µh -stable sheaf with Mukai vector v = (r, h, s) satis-
fying the inequality (1), then c1 (Φ(E)) = −hk + rδ.
Proof. By Lemma 2.3 we have R1 p∗ (q ∗ E ⊗ IZ ) = 0, thus there is an exact sequence:
(2) 0 p∗ (q ∗ E ⊗ IZ ) p∗ q ∗ E p∗ (q ∗ E ⊗ OZ ) 0
We have
p∗ q ∗ E ∼
= H0 (E) ⊗ OX [k]
and the sheaf p∗ (q ∗ E ⊗ OZ ) is by definition the tautological bundle E [k] . The exact
sequence (2) can be rewritten as
ϕ k
H0 (E) ⊗ OX k qi∗ E.
L
(5) 0 (Φ(E))X k
i=1
More accurately, ϕ is the evaluation map on X◦k : for any k-tuple (x1 , . . . , xk ) ∈ X k of
closed points with xi 6= xj , the morphism of fibers can be written as
k
M
ϕ(x1 ,...,xk ) : H 0 (E) −→ Exi
i=1
s 7−→ (s(x1 ), . . . , s(xk ))
Since for a non-trivial section s ∈ H0 (E), one can always choose a k-tuple of distinct points
(x1 , . . . xk ) ∈ X k with (s(x1 ), . . . , s(xk )) 6= (0, . . . , 0), we see that the induced map
Mk
0 0 0
H (ϕ) : H (E) −→ H ( qi∗ E)
i=1
is injective. It follows by exact sequence (5) that (Φ(E))X k has no global sections.
Proposition 2.6. Let E be a locally free µh -stable sheaf with Mukai vector v = (r, h, s)
satisfying the inequality (1), then the locally free sheaf Φ(E) defined in Lemma 2.3 is slope
stable with respect to hk .
Proof. We follow the proof of [11, Theorem 1.4] and start with the exact sequence
ϕ k
H0 (E) ⊗ OX k qi∗ E
L
0 (Φ(E))X k
i=1
and note that ϕ is surjective on X◦k , hence its cokernel coker(ϕ) is supported on the big
diagonal of X k , which is of codimension 2. We get
k
X
c1 ((Φ(E))X k ) = − qi∗ h.
i=1
and OX k is also stable with respect to hX k , the map F ′ → OX k must be injective, and
its cokernel is supported in codimension at least 2. Since both sheaves are reflexive, we
must have F ′ = OX k . As a result F , and consequently (Φ(E))X k , have non-trivial global
sections, a contradiction to Lemma 2.5.
If a > 1, F would be a subsheaf of the trivial bundle H 0 (E) ⊗ OX k of positive slope
which is not possible as such bundle is semistable of slope zero.
Theorem 2.7. Let E be a locally free µh -stable sheaf with Mukai vector v = (r, h, s)
satisfying the inequality (1), then Φ(E) is a locally free µH -stable sheaf for some ample
class H ∈ NS(X [k] ) near hk .
Proof. Proposition 2.6 and [3, Theorem 2.3.1] guarantee that the assumptions in [11,
Proposition 4.8] are satisfied for Φ(E), hence Φ(E) is slope stable with respect to some
ample class H near hk by [11, Proposition 4.8].
S ′ := {c1 (F ) | F ⊆ OX
r+s
[k] such that µβ (F ) > c}.
But S ′ is finite due to [4, Theorem 2.29], so S is also finite. The rest of the proof works
unaltered.
From now on we fix a Mukai vector v that satisfies conditions (1) − (3) and an ample
class H ∈ NS(X [k] ) that satisfies Theorem 3.1. We denote by MX [k] ,H (ΦC (v)) the moduli
space of µH -stable sheaves on X [k] with Mukai vector ΦC (v). Here
ΦC : H∗ (X, Q) → H∗ (X [k] , Q)
is the induced cohomological Fourier-Mukai transform, see [5, 5.28, 5.29].
In the following we want to give an explicit construction of the morphism
MX,h (v) → MX [k] ,H (ΦC (v)), [E] 7→ [Φ(E)] .
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As MX,h (v) is a fine moduli space, there is a universal family E on X × MX,h (v), flat over
MX,h (v). Since all sheaves in MX,h (v) are locally free, so is E by [6, Lemma 2.1.7]. Next
we look at the projections
α
Y MX,h (v) × X [k]
we have
∗
α∗ π23∗ (π12 ∗
E ⊗ π13 IZ ) ∼
= π1∗ β ∗ (π12
∗ ∗
E ⊗ π13 IZ ).
Letting α = ι[E] be the inclusion of the fiber of the projection MX,h (v) × X [k] → MX,h (v)
over [E] ∈ MX,h (v), then β = j[E] is the inclusion of the fiber of the second projection
X × MX,h (v) × X [k] → MX,h (v) over [E] ∈ MX,h (v). This shows that
ι∗ F = ι∗ π23∗ (π ∗ E ⊗ π ∗ IZ ) ∼
[E] [E] 12 13 = π1∗ j ∗ (π ∗ E ⊗ π ∗ IZ ) ∼
[E] 12 = p∗ (q ∗ E ⊗ IZ ) = Φ(E).
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Thus F is flat over MX,h (v) and the fiber of F over [E] ∈ MX,h (v) is just Φ(E).
The family F therefore induces a classifying morphism
f : MX,h (v) −→ MX [k] ,H (ΦC (v)), [E] 7−→ [Φ(E)].
The morphism f has the following property:
Theorem 3.2. The classifying morphism defined by the family F identifies MX,h (v) with
a smooth connected component of MX [k] ,H (ΦC (v)).
Proof. We have to prove two things (see [8, Lemma 1.6]):
(1) f is injective on closed points
(2) we have dim(T[Φ(E)] MX [k] ,H (ΦC (v))) = dim(T[E] MX,h (v)).
To see (1), we take [E], [F ] ∈ MX,h (v) with [E] 6= [F ]. We find
Hom [k] (Φ(E), Φ(F )) = ∼ HomX (E, F ) = 0
X
by Remark 1.3. This implies f is injective on closed points. The last equality follows from
the fact that E and F are non-isomorphic µh -stable sheaves with the same Mukai vector.
For (2): a similar computation shows
Ext1 [k] (Φ(E), Φ(E)) ∼
X = Ext1 (E, E). X
But as is well known, see for example [6, Corollary 4.5.2], there are canonical isomorphisms
T[Φ(E)] M [k] (ΦC (v)) ∼
X ,H = Ext1 [k] (Φ(E), Φ(E)) and T[E] MX,h (v) ∼
X = Ext1 (E, E). X
Thus we find dim(T[Φ(E)] MX [k] ,H (ΦC (v))) = dim(T[E] MX,h (v)) as desired.
Example 3.3. Theorem 3.1 and Theorem 3.2 are not void, that is there are Mukai vectors
on certain K3 surfaces that satisfy conditions (1) − (3). Here we give two examples:
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a) Let X be a K3 surface with NS(X) = Zh such that h2 = 50. For k = 2 the Mukai
vector v = (3, h, 8) satisfies the conditions (1) − (3): we have χ = 11. On the other
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hand v 2 = h2 − 48 = 2 and (r + 1)k = 8 so that χ = 11 > 10 = v2 + (r + 1)k + 1.
A further computation shows v 2 + 2 = 4 < 6 = 2r so that all sheaves in MX,h (v) are
locally free by [13, Lemma 4.4.2]. As gcd(3, 8) = 1 we see that MX,h (v) is a fine moduli
space by [6, Corollary 4.6.7].
b) Let X be a K3 surface with NS(X) = Zh such that h2 = 186. Then a similar compu-
tation shows that for k = 3 then the Mukai vector v = (5, h, 18) satisfies the conditions
(1) − (3).
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