Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 July 2022
We determine the integral Chow and cohomology rings of the moduli stack $\mathcal {B}_{r,d}$ of rank r, degree d vector bundles on
$\mathbb {P}^1$-bundles. We work over a field k of arbitrary characteristic. We first show that the rational Chow ring
$A_{\mathbb {Q}}^*(\mathcal {B}_{r,d})$ is a free
$\mathbb {Q}$-algebra on
$2r+1$ generators. The isomorphism class of this ring happens to be independent of d. Then, we prove that the integral Chow ring
$A^*(\mathcal {B}_{r,d})$ is torsion-free and provide multiplicative generators for
$A^*(\mathcal {B}_{r,d})$ as a subring of
$A_{\mathbb {Q}}^*(\mathcal {B}_{r,d})$. From this description, we see that
$A^*(\mathcal {B}_{r,d})$ is not finitely generated as a
$\mathbb {Z}$-algebra. Finally, when
$k = \mathbb {C}$, the cohomology ring of
$\mathcal {B}_{r,d}$ is isomorphic to its Chow ring.
During the preparation of this article, the author was supported by the Hertz Foundation and NSF GRFP under Grant No. DGE-1656518.