ACM sheaves on the double plane

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to start a study of aCM and Ulrich sheaves on non-integral projective varieties. We show that any aCM vector bundle of rank two on the double plane is a direct sum of line bundles. As a by-product, any aCM vector bundle of rank two on a sufficiently high dimensional quadric hypersurface also splits. We consider aCM and Ulrich vector bundles on multiple hyperplanes and prove the existence of such bundles that do not split if the multiple hyperplane is linearly embedded into a sufficiently high dimensional projective space. Then we restrict our attention to the double plane and give a classification of aCM sheaves of rank at most 3 / 2 3/2 on the double plane and describe the family of isomorphism classes of them.