Construction de familles minimales de courbes gauchesLet A be a local noetherian ring and N be a locally sheaf on the projective space P3A : one proves easily that there exists a family C of (smooth connected) curves contained in P3A,…Robin Hartshorne, Mireille Martin-Deschamps, Daniel Perrin·Nov 6, 1997SaveLearn
Beyond the Manin obstructionWe construct a (smooth, projective) surface over the field of rational numbers, which is a counterexample to the Hasse principle not accounted for by the Manin obstruction. The construction relies on…Alexei Skorobogatov·Nov 5, 1997SaveLearn
On higher order embeddings of Fano threefolds by the anticanonical linear systemThe map given by the anticanonical bundle of a Fano manifold is investigated with respect to a number of natural notions of higher order embeddings of projective manifolds. This is of importance in…M. C. Beltrametti, S. Di Rocco, A. J. Sommese·Nov 5, 1997SaveLearn
Some fundamental problems on real-analytic setsThe category of real-analytic sets and real-analytic maps is the most important category in application. However, in spite of efforts by F. Bruhat, H. Cartan, H. Whitney et al., the basic theory of…Tohsuke Urabe·Nov 4, 1997SaveLearn
Approximation by smooth curves near the tangent coneWe show that through a point of an affine variety there always exists a smooth plane curve inside the ambient affine space, which has the multiplicity of intersection with the variety at least 3.…Anvar R. Mavlyutov·Nov 3, 1997SaveLearn
Pure Hodge structure on the L2-cohomology of varieties with isolated singularitiesLet V be a complex projective variety with isolated singularities. Let the smooth part be given the metric induced by a projective imbedding. Then we develop the L2 harmonic theory and construct…William Pardon, Mark Stern·Nov 3, 1997SaveLearn
Resonant Hypergeometric Systems and Mirror SymmetryThe Gamma-series of Gel'fand-Kapranov-Zelevinsky are adapted so that they give solutions for certain resonant systems of GKZ hypergeometric differential equations. For this some complex…Jan Stienstra·Nov 3, 1997SaveLearn
On the variety of rational space curvesWe consider the locus of irreducible nonsingular rational curves of degree d Pn, n>2, meeting a generic collection of linear subspaces. When this locus is 0 (resp 1)- dimensional, we compute…Z. Ran·Oct 30, 1997SaveLearn
On the k-normality of some projective manifoldsA long standing conjecture, known to us as the Eisenbud Goto conjecture, states that an n-dimensional variety embedded with degree d in the N- dimensional projective space is…Alberto Alzati, Gian Mario Besana·Oct 29, 1997SaveLearn
On the infinitesimal rigidity of homogeneous varietiesLet X⊂ PN be a variety (respectively a patch of an analytic submanifold) and let x∈ X be a general point. We show that if the projective second fundamental form of X at x is…J. M. Landsberg·Oct 29, 1997SaveLearn
Frobenius Manifolds and Formality of Lie Algebras of Polyvector FieldsWe construct a generalization of the variations of Hodge structures on Calabi-Yau manifolds. It gives a Mirror partner for the theory of genus=0 Gromov-Witten invariantsSergey Barannikov, Maxim Kontsevich·Oct 28, 1997SaveLearn
The universal rank-(n-1) bundle on G(1,n) restricted to subvarietiesWe classify those smooth (n-1)-folds in G(1,n) for which the restriction of the rank-(n-1) universal bundle has more than n+1 independent sections. As an aplication, we classify also those…Enrique Arrondo·Oct 27, 1997SaveLearn
Injective resolutions of BG and derived moduli spaces of local systemsIt was suggested on several occasions by Deligne, Drinfeld and Kontsevich that all the moduli spaces arising in the classical problems of deformation theory should be extended to natural…M. Kapranov·Oct 24, 1997SaveLearn
Hyperkaehler structures on total spaces of holomorphic cotangent bundlesLet M be a Kaehler manifold, and consider the total space T*M of the cotangent bundle to M. We show that in the formal neighborhood of the zero section M ⊂ T*M the space T*M admits…D. Kaledin·Oct 23, 1997SaveLearn
Minimal even sets of nodesWe extend some results on even sets of nodes which have been proved for surfaces up to degree 6 to surfaces up to degree 10. In particular, we give a formula for the minimal cardinality of a nonempty…Stephan Endrass·Oct 20, 1997SaveLearn
The Geometry of the Space of Holomorphic Maps from a Riemann Surface into Complex Projective SpaceIn this paper we study the topology of the spaces Hol(M,Pn,k) of (basepoint preserving) holomorphic maps of a given degree k from a Riemann surface M of genus g>0 into the n-th complex projective…S. Kallel, R. J. Milgram·Oct 20, 1997SaveLearn
Conifold Transitions and Mirror Symmetry for Calabi-Yau Complete Intersections in GrassmanniansIn this paper we show that conifold transitions between Calabi-Yau 3-folds can be used for the construction of mirror manifolds and for the computation of the instanton numbers of rational curves on…Victor V. Batyrev, Ionunt Ciocan-Fontanine, Bumsig Kim et al.·Oct 19, 1997SaveLearn
Generation of k-jets on Toric VarietiesIn this notes we study k-jet ample line bundles L on a non singular toric variety X, i.e. line bundles with global sections having arbitrarily prescribed k-jets at a finite number of points.…Sandra Di Rocco·Oct 15, 1997SaveLearn
Un théorème de Rao pour les familles de courbes gauchesThe aim of this paper is to prove a generalization of a theorem of Rao for families of space curves, which caracterizes the biliaison classes of curves. First we introduce the concept of…Robin Hartshorne, Mireille Martin-Deschamps, Daniel Perrin·Oct 15, 1997SaveLearn
Generalized Reed-Muller codes and curves with many pointsThe weight hierarchy of generalized Reed-Muller codes over arbitrary finite fields was determined by Heijnen and Pellikaan. In this paper we produce curves over finite fields with many points which…Gerard van der Geer, Marcel van der Vlugt·Oct 13, 1997SaveLearn
Moduli of Trigonal CurvesWe study the moduli of trigonal curves. We establish the exact upper bound of 36(g+1)/(5g+1) for the slope of trigonal fibrations. Here, the slope of any fibration X B of stable curves with…Zvezdelina E. Stankova-Frenkel·Oct 12, 1997SaveLearn
The product formula for Gromov-Witten invariantsWe prove that the system of Gromov-Witten invariants of the product of two varieties is equal to the tensor product of the systems of Gromov-Witten invariants of the two factors.Kai Behrend·Oct 10, 1997SaveLearn
Quasi-algebraic geometry of curves I. Riemann-Roch theorem and JacobianWe discuss an analogue of Riemann-Roch theorem for curves with an infinite number of handles. We represent such a curve X by its Shottki model, which is an open subset U of CP1 with infinite union…Ilya Zakharevich·Oct 10, 1997SaveLearn
Invariant stable bundles over modular curves X(p)We study stable vector bundles over the modular curve X(p) corresponding to the principal congruence subgroup of the modular group of prime level p which are invariant with respect to its…Igor V. Dolgachev·Oct 10, 1997SaveLearn
Canonical rational equivalence of intersections of divisorsWe consider the operation of intersecting with a locally principal Cartier divisor (i.e., a Cartier divisor which is principal on some neighborhood of its support). We describe this operation…Andrew Kresch·Oct 9, 1997SaveLearn