The Picard group of the universal moduli stack of principal bundles on pointed smooth curves II

Abstract

In this paper, which is a sequel of arXiv:2002.07494, we investigate, for any reductive group $G$ over an algebraically closed field $k$, the Picard group of the universal moduli stack $\mathrm{Bun}_{G,g,n}$ of $G$-bundles over $n$-pointed smooth projective curves of genus $g$. In particular: we give new functorial presentations of the Picard group of $\mathrm{Bun}_{G,g,n}$; we study the restriction homomorphism onto the Picard group of the moduli stack of principal $G$-bundles over a fixed smooth curve; we determine the Picard group of the rigidification of $\mathrm{Bun}_{G,g,n}$ by the center of $G$ as well as the image of the obstruction homomorphism of the associated gerbe. As a consequence, we compute the divisor class group of the moduli space of semistable $G$-bundles over $n$-pointed smooth projective curves of genus $g$.