Topology and geometry of moduli spaces of semistable sheaves on bielliptic surfaces

Abstract

We study the topology and low-degree Hodge theory of moduli spaces of semistable sheaves on bielliptic surfaces. For primitive rank-zero Mukai vectors $\mathbf{v}=(0,c_1(L),\chi )$ satisfying the positivity condition $\mathrm{nt}(L)\ge 3$, the distinguished fixed-determinant component $M_{H,S}(\mathbf{v},L)$ admits a support morphism to $|L|$ and is interpreted as a relative compactified Jacobian. Using this fibration, Lefschetz-type properties of positive linear systems, monodromy, and mixed Hodge structures, we construct a surjective homomorphism ${\pi }_1(S)\twoheadrightarrow {\pi }_1(M_{H,S}(\mathbf{v},L))$ and compute the first two Betti numbers of an Albanese fiber $F$, $M_{H,S}(\mathbf{v},L)$, and the distinguished component $M_{H,S}^{\circ }(\mathbf{v})$. Fourier-Mukai transforms and Bridgeland wall crossing extend these computations to primitive admissible Mukai vectors of positive rank. We further prove that $H^2(F,\mathbb{C})$ is of pure Hodge type $(1,1)$. If ${\lambda }_S=\ell (\mathbf{v})=1,$ then $F$ is a strict irreducible Calabi-Yau variety up to a finite quasi-étale cover. Under the additional genericity assumption on the pullback polarization, $M_{H,S}^{\circ }(\mathbf{v})$ is smooth and is noncanonically birational to ${\mathrm{Pic}}^0(S)\times {\mathrm{Hilb}}^{{\mathbf{v}}^2/2}(S)$.

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