Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 November 2011
The purpose of this paper is to give a sharp bound for the order of instability of an unstable hyperplane of a rank 2 stable reflexive sheaf E on ℙn, in terras of the Chern classes of E; and a sharp boundfor the order of instability of an unstable hyperplane of a rank 2 nonstable reflexive sheaf E on ℙn, in terms of the Chern classes of E and the order of nonstability of E.