Vector bundles on ruled Fano 3-folds

Let be a ruled Fano 3-fold. The goal of this paper is to compute the dimension, prove the irreducibility and smoothness and describe the structure of the moduli space M _L (2;c ₁,c ₂) of L-stable, rank 2 vector bundles E on X with certain Chern classes and for a suitable polarization L closely related to c ₂. More precisely, we will cover the study of some moduli spaces M _L (2;c ₁,c ₂) such that the generic point is given as a non-trivial extension of line bundles. This work nicely reflects the general philosophy that moduli spaces inherits a lot of geometrical properties of the underlying variety. Received: 16 February 1999 / Revised version: 2 July 1999