A Note on vector bundles on Hirzebruch surfaces

In literature, two basic construction methods have been used to study vector bundles on a Hirzebruch surface. On the one hand, we have Serre?s method and elementary modifications, describing rank-2 bundles as extensions in a canonical way (Brînz?nescu and Stoia, 1984 [4], [5], Brînz?nescu, 1996 [6], Brosius, 1983 [7], Friedman, 1998 [9]), and on the other hand, we have a Beilinson-type spectral sequence (Buchdahl, 1987 [8]). Morally, the Beilinson spectral sequence indicates how to recover a bundle from the cohomology of its twists and from some sheaf morphisms (the differentials of the sequence). The aim of this Note is to show that the canonical extension of a rank-2 bundle can be deduced from the Beilinson spectral sequence of a suitable twist, called the normalization. In the final part we give a cohomological criterion for a topologically trivial vector bundle on a Hirzebruch surface to be trivial. To emphasize the relations and the differences between these two construction methods mentioned above, two different proofs are given.