Affine holomorphic bundles over $\mathbb{P}^1_\mathbb{C}$ and apolar ideals
Naoufal Bouchareb
TL;DR
The paper develops a general classification framework for affine holomorphic bundles by translating the problem into extensions and the cohomology invariant $h_A\in H^1(X,\mathcal{L}(A))$, yielding a bijection between isomorphism classes with fixed linearisation and the Aut$(E)$-orbit of $H^1(X,\mathcal{E})$. Specializing to $X=\mathbb{P}^1_{\mathbb{C}}$ and rank-2 unstable linearisation, the moduli space becomes the topological cokernel of a morphism over the projective space of binary forms of degree $l=-2-n_2$, fibered with vector spaces, with fibre dimensions computable from $d=n_1-n_2$ and the cactus rank of the form. A striking duality ties these fibres to apolar ideals via a differential-operator correspondence, enabling explicit dimension formulas and revealing a stratification of $\mathbb{P}(\mathbb{C}[X_0,X_1]_{l})$ by cactus rank. The appendix formalizes the notion of topological cokernels for linear spaces and develops the Sylvester/apolar theory, providing explicit descriptions of cactus strata for small $l$ (notably $l=2,3,4$) and linking classical invariants to the geometry of the moduli spaces. Overall, the work uncovers a deep link between the classification of affine bundles on $\mathbb{P}^1_{\mathbb{C}}$ and apolar theory, offering concrete tools to compute fibre dimensions and to understand the geometry of the associated moduli spaces.
Abstract
We study the classification of affine holomorphic bundles over a compact complex manifold $X$ in general, and we apply the general theory to the case $X=\mathbb{P}^1_\mathbb{C}$. We study the moduli space of framed, non-degenerate rank 2 affine bundles over $\mathbb{P}^1_\mathbb{C}$ whose linearisation, viewed as locally free sheaf, is isomorphic to $ {\mathcal O}_{\mathbb{P}^1_\mathbb{C}}(n_1)\oplus {\mathcal O}_{\mathbb{P}^1_\mathbb{C}}(n_2)$ where $n_1>n_2$. We show that this moduli space can be identified with the "topological cokernel" of a morphism of linear spaces over the projective space $\mathbb{P}(\mathbb{C}[X_0,X_1]_{l})$ of binary forms of degree $l:= -2-n_2$, in particular it fibres over this projective space with vector spaces as fibres. We show that the stratification of $\mathbb{P}(\mathbb{C}[X_0,X_1]_{l})$ defined by the level sets of the fibre dimension map is determined explicitly by $d:= n_1-n_2$ and the cactus rank stratification of $\mathbb{P}(\mathbb{C}[X_0,X_1]_{l})$.
