Moduli spaces of alpha-stable pairs and wall-crossing on P-2

Abstract

We study the wall-crossing of the moduli spaces M-alpha (d, 1) of a-stable pairs with linear Hilbert polynomial dm+1 on the projective plane P-2 as we alter the parameter a. When d is 4 or 5, at each wall, the moduli spaces are related by a smooth blow-up morphism followed by a smooth blow-down morphism, where one can describe the blow-up centers geometrically. As a byproduct, we obtain the Poincare polynomials of the moduli spaces M(d, 1) of stable sheaves. We also discuss the wall-crossing when the number of stable components in Jordan Holder filtrations is three.