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On the Cohomology of Moduli of Vector Bundles and the Tamagawa Number of SLn

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Ajneet Dhillon*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 3K7 e-mail: adhill3@uwo.ca
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We compute some Hodge and Betti numbers of the moduli space of stable rank $r$, degree $d$ vector bundles on a smooth projective curve. We do not assume $r$ and $d$ are coprime. In the process we equip the cohomology of an arbitrary algebraic stack with a functorial mixed Hodge structure. This Hodge structure is computed in the case of the moduli stack of rank $r$, degree $d$ vector bundles on a curve. Our methods also yield a formula for the Poincaré polynomial of the moduli stack that is valid over any ground field. In the last section we use the previous sections to give a proof that the Tamagawa number of $\text{S}{{\text{L}}_{n}}$ is one.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2006

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