Theta divisors and Ulrich bundles on geometrically ruled surfaces (Q2297627)

In this paper, the problem of the existence of an Ulrich bundle on a geometrically ruled surface is studied and for that explicit conditions, in terms of the invariants of the surface, are provided. As the second main result, given the invariants, based on proving the existence of a proper theta divisor in the moduli space of vector bundles on a curve, the authors characterize the existence of a geometrically ruled surface with those invariants, supporting an Ulrich bundle. In particular, the existence of special stable rank \(2\) Ulrich bundles are studied.