Special Ulrich bundles on non-special surfaces with $p_g=q=0$

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates the existence of special Ulrich bundles on certain non-special algebraic surfaces with specific geometric properties, extending previous results and showing the abundance of such bundles.

Contribution

It extends the existence results of special Ulrich bundles to a broader class of non-special surfaces with $p_g=q=0$, including Enriques and anticanonical rational surfaces.

Findings

Supports families of dimension p of non-isomorphic, indecomposable Ulrich bundles.

Establishes existence of special Ulrich bundles of rank 2 on various non-special surfaces.

Shows that such bundles are often stable and abundant on these surfaces.

Abstract

Let $S$ be a surface with $p_g(S)=q(S)=0$ and endowed with a very ample line bundle $\mathcal O_S(h)$ such that $h^1\big(S,\mathcal O_S(h)\big)=0$. We show that $S$ supports special (often stable) Ulrich bundles of rank $2$, extending a recent result by A. Beauville. Moreover, we show that such an $S$ supports families of dimension $p$ of pairwise non-isomorphic, indecomposable, Ulrich bundles for arbitrary large $p$ except for very few cases. We also show that the same is true for linearly normal non-special surface in $\mathbb P^4$ of degree at least $4$, Enriques surface and anticanonical rational surface.