Stability of the canonical extension of tangent bundles on Picard-rank-1 Fano varieties

Abstract

We consider slope stability of the canonical extension of the tangent bundle by the trivial line bundle and with the extension class c_1(T_X) on Picard-rank-1 Fano varieties. In cases where the index divides the dimension or the dimension plus one, we show that stability of the tangent bundle implies (semi)stability of the canonical extension. One consequence of our result is that the canonical extensions on moduli spaces of stable vector bundles with a fixed determinant on a curve are at least semistable, and stable in some cases.