Abstract:
We construct a new compactification of the moduli scheme of Gieseker-stable vector bundles having fixed Hilbert polynomial on a smooth projective polarized surface $(S,H)$ defined over the field $k=\mathbb C$. Families of locally free sheaves on the surface $S$ are completed by locally free sheaves
on surfaces that are certain modifications of $S$. The new moduli space has a birational morphism onto the Gieseker-Maruyama moduli space. We consider the case when the Gieseker-Maruyama
space is the coarse moduli space.
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