The period-index problem of the canonical gerbe of symplectic and orthogonal bundles

BİSWAS I., COŞKUN E., DHİLLON A.

JOURNAL OF ALGEBRA, vol.446, pp.400-425, 2016 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 446
  • Publication Date: 2016
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/j.jalgebra.2015.10.001
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF ALGEBRA
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.400-425
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

We consider regularly stable parabolic symplectic and orthogonal bundles over an irreducible smooth projective curve over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. The morphism from the moduli stack of such bundles to its coarse moduli space is a mu(2)-gerbe. We study the period and index of this gerbe, and solve the corresponding period-index problem. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.