Modular sheaves with many moduli

Abstract: We exhibit moduli spaces of slope stable vector bundles on general polarized HK varieties $(X,h)$ of type $K3^{[2]}$ which have an irreducible component of dimension $2a^2+2$, with $a$ an arbitrary integer greater than $1$. This is done by studying the case $X=S^{[2]}$ where $S$ is an elliptic $K3$ surface. We show that in this case there is an irreducible component of the moduli space of stable vector bundles on $S^{[2]}$ which is birational to a moduli space of sheaves on $S$. We expect that if the moduli space of sheaves on $S$ is a smooth HK variety (necessarily of type $K3^{[a^2+1]}$) then the following more precise version holds: the closure of the moduli space of slope stable vector bundles on $(X,h)$ in the moduli space of Gieseker-Maruyama semistable sheaves with its GIT polarization is a general polarized HK variety of type $K3^{[a^2+1]}$.