2-very ampleness for adjoint bundles of ample and spanned vector bundles on surfaces (Q1365446)

Let \({\mathcal E}\) be an ample and spanned vector bundle of rank \(r\geq 2\) on a smooth complex projective surface \(X\). The 2-very ampleness of the adjoint line bundle \(K_X +\text{det }{\mathcal E}\) is investigated. In particular, under the assumption that \(c_1({\mathcal E})^2\geq 16\), the exceptions to the 2-very ampleness of the adjoint bundle are classified in the following cases: (i) \(r\geq 3\), and (ii) \(r\geq 2\) with \({\mathcal E}\) very ample. We also prove the \(k\)-very ampleness of \(K_X+\text{det }{\mathcal E}\) for any ample and spanned vector bundle \({\mathcal E}\) of rank \(r\geq 2k\) \((\geq 4)\) with \(c_1({\mathcal E})^2\geq 4k+8\) except for \((X,{\mathcal E})\cong (\mathbb{P}^2,{\mathcal O}_{\mathbb{P}} (1)^{\oplus 4})\). In the general case when \(r=2\), in which the number of exceptions seems out of control, we produce several examples of pairs \((X,{\mathcal E})\) for which \(K_X+\text{det }{\mathcal E}\) is very ample but fails to be 2-very ample.