Moduli of Sheaves Supported on Quartic Space Curves

Abstract

As a continuation of the work of Freiermuth and Trautmann, we study the geometry of the moduli space of stable sheaves on P-3 with Hilbert polynomial 4m + 1. The moduli space has three irreducible components whose generic elements are, respectively, sheaves supported on rational quartic curves, on elliptic quartic curves, or on planar quartic curves. The main idea of the proof is to relate the moduli space with the Hilbert scheme of curves by wall crossing. We present all stable sheaves contained in the intersections of the three irreducible components. We also classify stable sheaves by means of their free resolutions.