Rational points on some Fano cubic bundlesWe consider some families of smooth Fano hypersurfaces Xn+2 in Pn+2 × P3 given by a homogeneous polynomial of bidegree (1,3). For these varieties we obtain lower bounds…Victor V. Batyrev, Yuri Tschinkel·Feb 17, 1996SaveLearn
Residues and Differential Operators on SchemesBeilinson Completion Algebras (BCAs) are generalizations of complete local rings, and have a rich algebraic-analytic structure. These algebras were introduced in my paper "Traces and Differential…Amnon Yekutieli·Feb 14, 1996SaveLearn
Nodal curves on surfaces of general typeWe study the family of irreducible curves with δ nodes belonging to a free linear system |C| with smooth general member on a surface S such that |KS| is ample. Under the assumption that C…Luca Chiantini, Edoardo Sernesi·Feb 14, 1996SaveLearn
Non-abelian monopoles and vorticesThe Seiberg-Witten equations are defined on certain complex line bundles over smooth oriented four manifolds. When the base manifold is a complex Kahler surface, the Seiberg-Witten equations are…Steven Bradlow, Oscar Garcia-Prada·Feb 9, 1996SaveLearn
Virtual moduli cycles and Gromov-Witten invariants of algebraic varietiesWe introduce a method of constructing the virtual cycle of any scheme associated with a tangent-obstruction complex. We apply this method to constructing the virtual moduli cycle of the moduli of…Jun Li, Gang Tian·Feb 9, 1996SaveLearn
On the monodromy at infinity of a polynomial map, IIIn the last years a lot of work has been concentrated on the study of the behaviour at infinity of polynomial maps. This behaviour can be very complicated, therefore the main idea was to find special…R. Garcia, A. Nemethi·Feb 9, 1996SaveLearn
Spin Verlinde spaces and Prym theta functionsTheta functions of level n on the principally polarised Prym varieties of an algebraic curve are dual to sections of the orthogonal theta line bundle on the moduli space of Spin(n)-bundles over the…W. M. Oxbury·Feb 9, 1996SaveLearn
Chapters on algebraic surfacesThis is a first graduate course in algebraic geometry. It aims to give the student a lift up into the subject at the research level, with lots of interesting topics taken from the classification of…Miles Reid·Feb 6, 1996SaveLearn
Real enumerative geometry and effective algebraic equivalenceWe describe an approach to the question of finding real solutions to problems of enumerative geometry, in particular the question of whether a problem of enumerative geometry can have all of its…Frank Sottile·Feb 6, 1996SaveLearn
Alexander Stratifications of Character VarietiesThere is a natural stratification of the character variety of a finitely presented group coming from the jumping loci of the first cohomology of one-dimensional representations. Equations defining…Eriko Hironaka·Feb 2, 1996SaveLearn
Algebraic Chern Simons TheoryAn analog of Chern-Simons theory is developed in an algebro-geometric setting.Spencer Bloch, Hélène Esnault·Feb 2, 1996SaveLearn
A Hitchin-Kobayashi Correspondence for Coherent Systems on Riemann SurfacesA `coherent system' ( E,V), consists of a holomorphic bundle plus a linear subspace of its space of holomorphic sections. Based on the usual notion in Geometric Invariant Theory, a notion…Steven B. Bradlow, Oscar Garcia-Prada·Feb 2, 1996SaveLearn
Flatness of families induced by hypersurfaces on flag varietiesWe answer a question posed by S. Kleiman concerning flatness of the family of complete quadrics. We also show that any flat family of hypersurfaces on Grassmann varieties induces a flat family of…Israel Vainsencher·Feb 2, 1996SaveLearn
On Cohomology of the Square of an Ideal SheafFor a smooth subvariety X⊂ PN, consider (analogously to projective normality) the vanishing condition H1( PN, I2X(k))=0, k3. This condition is shown to be satisfied…Jonathan Wahl·Jan 29, 1996SaveLearn
Singularities of PairsThese are the revised notes of my lectures at the 1995 Santa Cruz summer institute. Changes from the Jan.26,1996 version: Major: 7.1--2; Medium: 3.7, 3.11, 5.3.3, 7.9.2, 9.8.János Kollár·Jan 26, 1996SaveLearn
Geometry of Deligne cohomologyIt is well known that degree two Deligne cohomology groups can be identified with groups of isomorphism classes of holomorphic line bundles with connections. There is also a geometric description of…Pawel Gajer·Jan 26, 1996SaveLearn
Toward Clemens' Conjecture in degrees between 10 and 24We introduce and study a likely condition that implies the following form of Clemens' conjecture in degrees d between 10 and 24: given a general quintic threefold F in complex 4, the…Trygve Johnsen, Steven L. Kleiman·Jan 23, 1996SaveLearn
Compactifications of families of curvesWe construct a good compactification of the variety of irreducible projective plane curves of degree n with d nodes and no other singularities.Robert Treger·Jan 23, 1996SaveLearn
The Space of Triangles, Vanishing Theorems, and CombinatoricsWe consider compactifications of the space of triples of distinct points in projective n-space. One such space is a singular variety of configurations of points and lines; another is the smooth…Wilberd van der Kallen, Peter Magyar·Jan 23, 1996SaveLearn
Volumes of hyperbolic manifolds and mixed Tate motivesTwo different constructions of an invariant of an odd dimensional hyperbolic manifold in the K-group K2n-1( Q) Q are given. The volume of the manifold is equal to the value…Alexander Goncharov·Jan 19, 1996SaveLearn
Geometry of families of nodal curves on rational surfacesLet P2r be the projective plane blown up at r generic points. Denote by E0,E1,...,Er the strict transform of a generic straight line on P2 and the exceptional divisors of the blown-up points on…Gert-Martin Greuel, Christoph Lossen, Eugenii Shustin·Jan 19, 1996SaveLearn
Principle bundles admitting a holomorphic structureLet M be a compact connected Kähler manifold and let l-1 be the smallest term in the Harder-Narasimhan filtration of its tangent bundle. Let G be an affine algebraic reductive group over…Indranil Biswas·Jan 18, 1996SaveLearn
Bounds for Seshadri ConstantsIn the paper we present an alternative approach to the boundedness of Seshadri constants (which measure the local positivity) of nef and big line bundles at a general point of a complex--projective…Oliver Küchle, Andreas Steffens·Jan 18, 1996SaveLearn
The canonical modifications by weighted blow-upsIn this paper we give a criterion for an isolated, hypersurface singularity of dimension n\ (≥ 2) to have the canonical modification by means of a suitable weighted blow-up. Then we give a…Shihoko Ishii·Jan 18, 1996SaveLearn
Space of conformal blocks in 4D WZW theoryWe propose an algebro-geometric definition of the space of conformal blocks in the four dimensional Wess-Zumino-Witten theory introduced by Losev.et al..Tohru Nakashima, Yuichiro Takeda·Jan 17, 1996SaveLearn