RT Journal Article T1 On the geometry of moduli spaces of coherent systems on algebraic curves. A1 Bradlow, S.B. A1 García Prada, O. A1 Mercat, V. A1 Muñoz, Vicente A1 Newstead, P. E. AB Let C be an algebraic curve of genus g ≥ 2. A coherent system on C consists of a pair (E, V ), where E is an algebraic vector bundle over C of rank n and degree d and V is a subspace of dimension k of the space of sections of E. The stability of the coherent system depends on a parameter a. We study the geometry of the moduli space of coherent systems for different values of a when k ≤ n and thevariation of the moduli spaces when we vary a. As a consequence, for sufficiently large , we compute the Picard groups and the first and second homotopy groupsof the moduli spaces of coherent systems in almost all cases, describe the moduli space for the case k = n − 1 explicitly, and give the Poincare polynomials for thecase k = n − 2. In an appendix, we describe the geometry of the “flips” which takeplace at critical values of a in the simplest case, and include a proof of the existenceof universal families of coherent systems when GCD(n, d, k)= 1. PB World Scientific SN 0129-167X YR 2007 FD 2007 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50593 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50593 LA eng NO EAGER NO EDGE NO European Scientific Exchange Programme (Royal Society of London ) NO Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas NO National Science Foundation DS Docta Complutense RD 9 abr 2025