Vector bundles on elliptic surfaces

Speaker: Vitantonio Peragine, SISSA, Trieste.

Date: 26 nov 2019, 14h.

Place: Room 407, Bloco H, Campus Gragoatá, UFF.

Abstract: This will be a review talk about vector bundles on elliptic surfaces.

We will start by showing that S-equivalence classes of semistable vector bundles of rank n and trivial determinant over an integral curve E of arithmetic genus 1 (possibly singular) have a coarse moduli space, which is a projective space P of dimension n-1.

Then, we will describe two methods for constructing universal families of regular bundles over PxE, one based on the idea of a spectral cover of P, and  the other on the universal extension of two carefully chosen vector bundles on E.

Finally, we will explain how these ideas can be generalized to the relative context of a family of Weierstrass cubics with a section.

The Strong Maximal Rank Conjecture and higher-rank Brill-Noether theory

Speaker: Ethan Cotterill, UFF.

Date: 05 nov 2019, 14h.

Place: Room 407, Bloco H, Campus Gragoatá, UFF.

Abstract: We compute the cohomology class of certain “special maximal-rank loci” originally defined by Aprodu and Farkas. By showing the non-triviality of such classes, we are able to verify the non-emptiness portion of the Strong Maximal Rank conjecture for a wide range of cases. As an application, we obtain new results for the existence portion of a well-known conjecture due to Bertram, Feinberg and independently Mukai in higher-rank Brill- Noether theory.