Globally generated vector bundles with $c_1 = 5$ on $\mathbb{P}^n$, $n \geq 4$

Abstract

We complete the classification of globally generated vector bundles with small $c_1$ on projective spaces by treating the case $c_1 = 5$ on $\mathbb{P}^n$, $n \geq 4$ (the case $c_1 \leq 3$ has been considered by Sierra and Ugaglia, while the cases $c_1 = 4$ on any projective space and $c_1 = 5$ on $\mathbb{P}^2$ and $\mathbb{P}^3$ have been studied in two of our previous papers). It turns out that there are very few indecomposable bundles of this kind: besides some obvious examples there are, roughly speaking, only the (first twist of the) rank 5 vector bundle which is the middle term of the monad defining the Horrocks bundle of rank 3 on $\mathbb{P}^5$, and its restriction to $\mathbb{P}^4$. We recall, in an appendix, from our preprint [arXiv:1805.11336], the main results allowing the classification of globally generated vector bundles with $c_1 = 5$ on $\mathbb{P}^3$. Since there are many such bundles, a large part of the main body of the paper is occupied with the proof of the fact that, except for the simplest ones, they do not extend to $\mathbb{P}^4$ as globally generated vector bundles.