Jumping conics on a smooth quadric in $${\mathbb {P}_3}$$

We investigate the jumping conics of stable vector bundles E of rank 2 on a smooth quadric surface Q with the first Chern class c₁ = O_Q(-1,-1){c_1= \mathcal{O}_Q(-1,-1)} with respect to the ample line bundle O_Q(1,1){\mathcal {O}_Q(1,1)} . We show that the set of jumping conics of E is a hypersurface of degree c ₂(E) − 1 in \mathbb P₃^*{\mathbb {P}_3^{*}} . Using these hypersurfaces, we describe moduli spaces of stable vector bundles of rank 2 on Q in the cases of lower c ₂(E).