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Ulrich Bundles On Abelian Surfaces: Bundle On X Is A Vector Bundle E On X Satisfying H

The document summarizes a proof that any abelian surface admits a rank 2 Ulrich bundle. It defines what an Ulrich bundle is and cites previous work showing their existence on some varieties. The proof uses Serre's construction to define a rank 2 vector bundle E on an abelian surface X by an exact sequence involving the ideal sheaf of n general points on a curve C in the linear system |OX(1)|. It then shows that E ⊗ η(1) is an Ulrich bundle for η a general Picard group element.

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Ulrich Bundles On Abelian Surfaces: Bundle On X Is A Vector Bundle E On X Satisfying H

The document summarizes a proof that any abelian surface admits a rank 2 Ulrich bundle. It defines what an Ulrich bundle is and cites previous work showing their existence on some varieties. The proof uses Serre's construction to define a rank 2 vector bundle E on an abelian surface X by an exact sequence involving the ideal sheaf of n general points on a curve C in the linear system |OX(1)|. It then shows that E ⊗ η(1) is an Ulrich bundle for η a general Picard group element.

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ULRICH BUNDLES ON ABELIAN SURFACES

arXiv:1512.00992v1 [math.AG] 3 Dec 2015

ARNAUD BEAUVILLE
A BSTRACT. We prove that any abelian surface admits a rank 2 Ulrich bundle.

Let X PN be a projective variety of dimension d over an algebraically closed field. An Ulrich


bundle on X is a vector bundle E on X satisfying H (X, E(1)) = . . . = H (X, E(d)) = 0 . This
notion was introduced in [ES], where various other characterizations are given; let us just mention
that it is equivalent to say that E admits a linear resolution as a OPN -module, or that the pushforward
of E onto Pd by a general linear projection is a trivial bundle.
In [ES] the authors ask whether every projective variety admits an Ulrich bundle. The answer
is known only in a few cases: hypersurfaces and complete intersections [HUB], del Pezzo surfaces
[ES, Corollary 6.5]. The case of K3 surfaces is treated in [AFO]. In this short note we show that the
existence of Ulrich bundles for abelian surfaces follows easily from Serres construction:
Theorem. Any abelian surface X PN carries a rank 2 Ulrich bundle.
Proof : We put dim H 0 (X, OX (1)) = n. Let C be a smooth curve in |OX (1)|; we have OC (1)
= C ,
and g(C) = n + 1 . We choose a subset Z C of n general points. Then Z has the CayleyBacharach property on X (see for instance [HL], Theorem 5.1.1): for every p Z , any section of
H 0 (X, OX (1)) vanishing on Z r {p} vanishes on Z . Indeed, the image V of the restriction map
H 0 (X, OX (1)) H 0 (C, OC (1)) has dimension n 1 , hence the only element of V vanishing on n 1
general points is zero; thus the only element of |OX (1)| containing Z r {p} is C .
By loc. cit., there exists a rank 2 vector bundle E on X and an exact sequence
s

0 OX E IZ (1) 0 .
Let be a general element of Pico (X); then (1)|C (Z) is a general line bundle on C of degree
n = g(C)1 , hence H 0 (C, (1)|C (Z)) = 0 , and therefore H 0 (X, IZ (1)) = 0 . Since (IZ (1))) = 0
we have also H 1 (X, IZ (1)) = 0 ; from the above exact sequence we conclude that H (X, E ) = 0 .
The zero locus of the section s of E is Z ; since det E = C , we get an exact sequence
s|C

0 OC (Z) E|C C (Z) 0 .


Since |C is general and deg OC (Z) = deg C (Z) = g(C) 1 , it follows that H (C, (E )|C ) = 0 .
Now from the exact sequence
0 E(1) E E|C 0
we conclude that H (X, E (1)) = H (X, E ) = 0 , hence E (1) is an Ulrich bundle.
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ARNAUD BEAUVILLE

R EFERENCES
[AFO]

M. Aprodu, G. Farkas, A. Ortega : Minimal resolutions, Chow forms and Ulrich bundles on K3 surfaces. Preprint
arXiv:1212.6248. J. Reine Angew. Math., to appear.

[HUB] J. Herzog, B. Ulrich, J. Backelin : Linear maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules over strict complete intersections. J. Pure
[ES]

Appl. Algebra 71 (1991), no. 2-3, 187-202.


D. Eisenbud, F.-O. Schreyer : Resultants and Chow forms via exterior syzygies. J. Amer. Math. Soc. 16 (2003), no. 3,
537-579.

[HL]

D. Huybrechts, M. Lehn : The geometry of moduli spaces of sheaves (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, 2010.

L ABORATOIRE J.-A. D IEUDONN E , UMR 7351 DU CNRS, U NIVERSIT E DE N ICE , PARC VALROSE , F-06108 N ICE CEDEX 2,
F RANCE
E-mail address: [email protected]

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