An Ulrich line bundle on a smooth projective variety of dimension
, relative to a Cartier divisor
whose associated line bundle
is very ample, is
a line bundle
satisfying
for every
and
.
The notation denotes sheaf cohomology, and
is the tensor
product of
with
.
The very ample divisor,
which specifies the projective embedding, is part of the definition (Beauville 2018).
On a complex Enriques surface with no smooth rational curves, Borisov and Nuer (2018) related
such bundles to divisor classes : the line bundle
is Ulrich iff
. Wang and Yi (2026) proved the Borisov-Nuer
conjecture and thereby established the existence of an Ulrich line bundle for
every choice of a very ample divisor
of an unnodal Enriques
surface.