Determinant line bundles on Moduli spaces of pure sheaves on rational surfaces and Strange Duality

Abstract

Let $\mhu$ be the moduli space of semi-stable pure sheaves of class $u$ on a smooth complex projective surface $X$. We specify $u=(0,L,\chi (u)=0),$ i.e. sheaves in $u$ are of dimension $1$. There is a natural morphism $\pi$ from the moduli space $\mhu$ to the linear system $\ls$. We study a series of determinant line bundles $\lcn$ on $\mhu$ via $\pi .$ Denote $g_L$ the arithmetic genus of curves in $\ls.$ For any $X$ and $g_L\le 0$, we compute the generating function $Z^r(t)=\sum_{n}h^0(\mhu,\lcn)t^n$. For $X$ being ${\mathbb{P}}^2$ or $\mathbb{P}(\mo_{\pone}\oplus\mo_{\pone}(-e))$ with $e=0,1$, we compute $Z^1(t)$ for $g_L>0$ and $Z^r(t)$ for all $r$ and $g_L=1,2$. Our results provide a numerical check to Strange Duality in these specified situations, together with Göttsche's computation. And in addition, we get an interesting corollary in the theory of compactified Jacobian of integral curves.