$2$-nilpotent co-Higgs structures

Abstract

A co-Higgs sheaf is a pair of a torsion-free coherent sheaf $\mathcal{E}$ and a global section of $\mathcal{E}nd(\mathcal{E})\otimes T_X$ with $T_X$ the tangent bundle. We construct $2$-nilpotent co-Higgs sheaves of rank two for some rational surfaces and of rank three for ${\mathbb{P}}^3$, using the Hartshorne-Serre correspondence. Then we investigate the non-existence, specially over projective spaces.

16 pages; some changes in Theorem 1.1 and Proposition 3.4; Comments welcome