A Fourier-Mukai approach to spectral data for instantons

Abstract

We study U(r) instantons on elliptic surfaces with a section and show that they are in one-one correspondence with spectral data consisting of a curve in the dual elliptic surface and a line bundle on that curve. We use relative Fourier-Mukai transforms to analyse their properties and, in the case of the K3 and abelian surfaces, we show that the moduli space of instantons has a natural Lagrangian fibration with respect to the canonical complex symplectic structure.