Ulrich and Instanton Bundles on Special Cubic Fourfolds

Abstract

We study instanton and Ulrich bundles on hypersurfaces of the projective space, with a focus on special cubic fourfolds and generalized Pfaffians, notably defined by skew-symmetric endomorphisms of Steiner bundles. We prove that the acyclic extensions of instantons deform to Ulrich bundles and deduce that the existence of instantons of low rank and charge implies the existence of Ulrich bundles of low rank, which in turn forces the fourfold to lie in some Hassett divisor. Finally we take a closer look to divisors of cubics with discriminant 18 and 20.