Vector bundles whose restriction to a linear section is Ulrich

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Abstract: An Ulrich sheaf on an n-dimensional projective variety X, embedded in a projective space, is a normalized ACM sheaf which has the maximum possible number of global sections. Using a construction based on the representation theory of Roby-Clifford algebras, we prove that every normal ACM variety admits a reflexive sheaf whose restriction to a general 1-dimensional linear section is Ulrich; we call such sheaves delta-Ulrich. In the case n=2, where delta-Ulrich sheaves satisfy the property that their direct image under a general finite linear projection is a semistable instanton bundle, we show that some high Veronese embedding of X admits a delta-Ulrich sheaf with a global section.


Let \(X\subset \mathbb{P}^N\) be a variety of dimension \(n\) and let \(E\) be a coherent sheaf on \(X\). One says that \(E\) is Ulrich, if under a general projection \(\pi:X\to\mathbb{P}^n\), \(\pi_*E\) is the trivial bundle. Whether such sheaves exist for all projective varieties is not known and is a question raised by \textit{D. Eisenbud} and \textit{F.-O. Schreyer} [J. Am. Math. Soc. 16, No. 3, 537--575, appendix 576--579 (2003; Zbl 1069.14019)]. Even a weaker question, originally raised by Hochster, whether sheaves \(E\) as above so that \(\pi_*E \) is a direct sum of line bundles, known as Arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay sheaves, exists is not known even for smooth varieties in characteristic zero. The answer to both these questions is affirmative for any one dimensional scheme and so the authors discuss a weaker notion, which they call \(\delta\)-Ulrich sheaves defined as follows. A reflexive sheaf \(E\) on \(X\) is \(\delta\)-Ulrich, if for some smooth one dimensional linear section \(Y\) of \(X\), \(E_{|Y}\) is Ulrich. The main existence theorem they prove is that any normal Arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay variety carries a \(\delta\)-Ulrich sheaf.











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