Grassmann bundle

In algebraic geometry, the Grassmann d-plane bundle of a vector bundle E on an algebraic scheme X is a scheme over X:

p:G_{d}(E)\to X

such that the fiber $p^{-1}(x)=G_{d}(E_{x})$ is the Grassmannian of the d-dimensional vector subspaces of $E_x$ . For example, $G_{1}(E)=\mathbb {P} (E)$ is the projective bundle of E. In the other direction, a Grassmann bundle is a special case of a (partial) flag bundle. Concretely, the Grassmann bundle can be constructed as a Quot scheme.

Like the usual Grassmannian, the Grassman bundle comes with natural vector bundles on it; namely, there are universal or tautological subbundle S and universal quotient bundle Q that fit into

0\to S\to p^{*}E\to Q\to 0

Specifically, if V is in the fiber p⁻¹(x), then the fiber of S over V is V itself; thus, S has rank r = rk(E) and $\wedge ^{r}S$ is the determinant line bundle. Now, by the universal property of a projective bundle, the injection $\wedge ^{r}S\to p^{*}(\wedge ^{r}E)$ corresponds to the morphism over X:

G_{d}(E)\to \mathbb {P} (\wedge ^{r}E)

which is nothing but a family of Plücker embeddings.

The relative tangent bundle T_{G_d(E)/X} of G_d(E) is given by^[1]

T_{G_{d}(E)/X}=\operatorname {Hom} (S,Q)=S^{\vee }\otimes Q,

which is morally given by the second fundamental form. In particular, when d = 1, the early exact sequence tensored with the dual of S = O(-1) gives:

0\to {\mathcal {O}}_{\mathbb {P} (E)}\to p^{*}E\otimes {\mathcal {O}}_{\mathbb {P} (E)}(1)\to T_{\mathbb {P} (E)/X}\to 0

which is the relative version of the Euler sequence.

References

↑ Fulton Appendix B.5.8

Eisenbud, David; Joe, Harris (2016), 3264 and All That: A Second Course in Algebraic Geometry, C. U.P., ISBN 978-1107602724
William Fulton. (1998), Intersection theory, Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete. 3. Folge., 2 (2nd ed.), Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-62046-4, MR 1644323

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