Vanishing of the Chern classes of the de Rham bundles for some families of moduli spaces

Abstract

Given a family of nonsingular complex projective surfaces, there is a corresponding family of Hilbert schemes of zero dimensional subschemes. We prove that the Chern classes, with values in the rational Chow groups, of the de Rham bundles for such a family of Hilbert schemes vanish. A similar result is proved for any relative moduli space of rank one sheaves with trivial integral first Chern class over any family of complex projective surfaces.