%0 Journal Article %T Resolutions of defining ideals of orbit closures for quivers of type $A_3$ %A Kavita Sutar %J Mathematics %D 2011 %I arXiv %X We investigate the properties of coordinate rings of orbit closures for quivers of type $A_3$ by considering the desingularization given by Reineke. We construct explicit minimal free resolutions of the defining ideals of the orbit closures thus giving us a minimal set of generators for the defining ideal. The resolution allows us to read off some geometric properties of the orbit closure. In addition, we give a characterization for the orbit closure to be Gorenstein. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.1179v1