Counting $h^0(D)$ on primary Burniat surfaces
Yonghwa Cho
TL;DR
The paper develops a complete algorithm to compute the cohomology of arbitrary divisors on a primary Burniat surface with $K_X^2=6$, incorporating a detailed analysis of the Burniat configuration, effective divisors, and torsion in $\operatorname{Pic} X$. It classifies numerical divisor classes, reduces computations to nef reduced forms, and handles torsion twists to obtain exact $h^p(D)$ values. The authors apply these methods to Ulrich bundle questions, proving there are no Ulrich line bundles and producing a rank-2 Ulrich bundle for $3K_X$ that cannot be obtained by Casnati’s construction, thus enriching the landscape of Ulrich phenomena on Burniat surfaces. Overall, the work provides explicit, algorithmic tools for divisor cohomology and has meaningful implications for Ulrich theory on surfaces of general type.
Abstract
We study the cohomology of divisors on a Burniat surface $X$ with $K_X^2=6$. We provide an algorithm for computing the cohomology groups of arbitrary divisors on $X$. As an application, we prove that there are no Ulrich line bundles\,(with respect to an arbitrary polarization), and that there exists an Ulrich vector bundle of rank 2 with respect to $3K_X$. The existence of Ulrich vector bundle of rank 2 was previously established by Casnati, but our construction yields one that cannot be obtained by his method.
