We show that a smooth projective non-degenerate arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay subvariety X of P^N infinite Cohen-Macaulay type becomes of finite Cohen-Macaulay type by removing Ulrich bundles if and only if N = 5 and X is a quartic scroll or the Segre product of a line and a plane. In turn, we give a complete and explicit classification of ACM bundles over these varieties.
We provide a criterion for a coherent sheaf to be an Ulrich sheaf in terms of a certain bilinear form on its global sections. When working over the real numbers we call it a positive Ulrich sheaf if this bilinear form is symmetric or hermitian and positive definite. In that case our result provides a common theoretical framework for several results in real algebraic geometry concerning the existence of algebraic certificates for certain geometric properties. For instance, it implies Hilberts theorem on nonnegative ternary quartics, via the geometry of del Pezzo surfaces, and the solution of the Lax conjecture on plane hyperbolic curves due to Helton and Vinnikov.
In this article, we construct a non-commutative crepant resolution (=NCCR) of a minimal nilpotent orbit closure $overline{B(1)}$ of type A, and study relations between an NCCR and crepant resolutions $Y$ and $Y^+$ of $overline{B(1)}$. More precisely, we show that the NCCR is isomorphic to the path algebra of the double Beilinson quiver with certain relations and we reconstruct the crepant resolutions $Y$ and $Y^+$ of $overline{B(1)}$ as moduli spaces of representations of the quiver. We also study the Kawamata-Namikawas derived equivalence between crepant resolutions $Y$ and $Y^+$ of $overline{B(1)}$ in terms of an NCCR. We also show that the P-twist on the derived category of $Y$ corresponds to a certain operation of the NCCR, which we call multi-mutation, and that a multi-mutation is a composition of Iyama-Wemysss mutations.
We assume that $mathcal{E}$ is a rank $r$ Ulrich bundle for $(P^n, mathcal{O}(d))$. The main result of this paper is that $mathcal{E}(i)otimes Omega^{j}(j)$ has natural cohomology for any integers $i in mathbb{Z}$ and $0 leq j leq n$, and every Ulrich bundle $mathcal{E}$ has a resolution in terms of $n$ of the trivial bundle over $P^n$. As a corollary, we can give a necessary and sufficient condition for Ulrich bundles if $n leq 3$, which can be used to find some new examples, i.e., rank $2$ bundles for $(P^3, mathcal{O}(2))$ and rank $3$ bundles for $(P^2, mathcal{O}(3))$.
We show the existence of rank 6 Ulrich bundles on a smooth cubic fourfold. First, we construct a simple sheaf E of rank 6 as an elementary modification of an ACM bundle of rank 6 on a smooth cubic fourfold. Such an E appears as an extension of two Lehn-Lehn-Sorger-van Straten sheaves. Then we prove that a general deformation of E(1) becomes Ulrich. In particular, this says that general cubic fourfolds have Ulrich complexity 6.