P^r-scrolls arising from Brill-Noether theory and K3-surfaces

TL;DR

This paper explores P^r-scrolls on K3 surfaces derived from Brill-Noether theory, analyzing their properties within the Hilbert scheme and connecting projective geometry with vector bundle degenerations.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed study of P^r-scrolls on K3 surfaces, linking their moduli to Brill-Noether theory and classical results, and investigates their Hilbert scheme properties.

Findings

P^r-scrolls form an open dense subset of a Hilbert scheme component.

Properties of the Hilbert scheme are characterized via K3 moduli and sheaf moduli.

Applications to Hilbert schemes of ruled surfaces are discussed.

Abstract

In this paper we study examples of P^r-scrolls defined over primitively polarized K3 surfaces S of genus g, which arise from Brill-Noether theory of the general curve in the primitive linear system on S and from classical Lazarsfeld's results in. We show that such scrolls form an open dense subset of a component H of their Hilbert scheme; moreover, we study some properties of H (e.g. smoothness, dimensional computation, etc.) just in terms of the moduli space of such K3's and of the moduli space of semistable torsion-free sheaves of a given Mukai-vector on S. One of the motivation of this analysis is to try to introducing the use of projective geometry and degeneration techniques in order to studying possible limits of semistable vector-bundles of any rank on a general K3 as well as Brill-Noether theory of vector-bundles on suitable degenerations of projective curves. We conclude the paper by discussing some applications to the Hilbert schemes of geometrically ruled surfaces whose base curve has general moduli.