HODGE POLYNOMIALS OF SOME MODULI SPACES OF COHERENT SYSTEMS

When k < n, we study the coherent systems that come from a BGN extension in which the quotient bundle is strictly semistable. In this case we describe a stratification of the moduli space of coherent systems. We also describe the strata as complements of determinantal varieties and we prove that these are irreducible and smooth. These descriptions allow us to compute the Hodge polynomials of this moduli space in some cases. In particular, we give explicit computations for the cases in which (n, d, k) = (3, d, 1) and d is even, obtaining from them the usual Poincare polynomials.