Continuous CM-regularity of semihomogeneous vector bundles.

We ask when the CM (Castelnuovo–Mumford) regularity of a vector bundle on a projective variety X is numerical, and address the case when X is an abelian variety. We show that the continuous CM-regularity of a semihomogeneous vector bundle on an abelian variety X is a piecewise-constant function of Chern data, and we also use generic vanishing theory to obtain a sharp upper bound for the continuous CM-regularity of any vector bundle on X. From these results we conclude that the continuous CM-regularity of many semihomogeneous bundles — including many Verlinde bundles when X is a Jacobian — is both numerical and extremal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]