On The Projective Normality of Smooth Surfaces of degree nineWe investigate the projective normality of smooth, linearly normal surfaces of degree 9. All non projectively normal surfaces which are not scrolls over a curve are classified. Results on the…Gian Mario Besana, Sandra Di Rocco·Oct 7, 1997SaveLearn
Special Lagrangian Fibrations I: TopologyIn 1996, Strominger, Yau and Zaslow made a conjecture about the geometric relationship between two mirror Calabi-Yau manifolds. Roughly put, if X and Y are a mirror pair of such manifolds, then X…Mark Gross·Oct 6, 1997SaveLearn
A sparse effective NullstellensatzWe present bounds for the sparseness and for the degrees of the polynomials in the Nullstellensatz. Our bounds depend mainly on the unmixed volume of the input polynomial system. The degree bounds…Mart'in Sombra·Oct 1, 1997SaveLearn
Convex polytopes and linear algebraThis paper defines, for each convex polytope Δ, a family HwΔ of vector spaces. The definition uses a combination of linear algebra and combinatorics. When what is called exact calculation holds,…Jonathan Fine·Oct 1, 1997SaveLearn
An algebraic cell decomposition of the nonnegative part of a flag varietyWe study the nonnegative part B 0 of the flag variety of a reductive algebraic group G, as defined by Lusztig. Using positivity properties of the canonical basis it is shown that B 0 has…K. Rietsch·Sep 30, 1997SaveLearn
Skew Schubert functions and the Pieri formula for flag manifoldsWe show the equivalence of the Pieri formula for flag manifolds and certain identities among the structure constants, giving new proofs of both the Pieri formula and of these identities. A key step…Nantel Bergeron, Frank Sottile·Sep 30, 1997SaveLearn
On fibre space structures of a projective irreducible symplectic manifoldIn this note, we investigate fibre space structures of a projective irreducible symplectic manifold. We prove that an 2n-dimensional projective irreducible symplectic manifold admits only an…Daisuke Matsushita·Sep 30, 1997SaveLearn
Dimension of linear systems: a combinatorial and differential approachWe give upper-bounds for the dimension of some linear systems. The theorem improves the differential Horace method introduced by Alexander-Hirschowitz, and was conjectured by Simpson. Possible…L. Evain·Sep 29, 1997SaveLearn
K3 Surfaces with Nine CuspsBy a K3-surface with nine cusps I mean a surface with nine isolated double points A2, but otherwise smooth, such that its minimal desingularisation is a K3-surface. It is shown, that such a surface…W. Barth·Sep 29, 1997SaveLearn
A Survey of the Hodge Conjecture for Abelian VarietiesWe review what is known about the Hodge conjecture for abelian varieties, with some emphasis on how Mumford-Tate groups have been applied to this problem.B. Brent Gordon·Sep 26, 1997SaveLearn
Vector Bundles over Elliptic FibrationsThis paper gives various methods for constructing vector bundles over elliptic curves and more generally over families of elliptic curves. We construct universal families over generalized elliptic…Robert Friedman, John W. Morgan, Edward Witten·Sep 26, 1997SaveLearn
Resolution of SingularitiesThis article is an exposition of an elementary constructive proof of canonical resolution of singularities in characteristic zero, presented in detail in Invent. Math. 128 (1997), 207-302. We define…Edward Bierstone, Pierre D. Milman·Sep 25, 1997SaveLearn
On Mirror Symmetry Conjecture for Schoen's Calabi-Yau 3 foldsIn this paper, we verify a part of the Mirror Symmetry Conjecture for Schoen's Calabi-Yau 3-fold, which is a special complete intersection in a toric variety. We calculate a part of the…Shinobu Hosono, Masa-Hiko Saito, Jan Stienstra·Sep 25, 1997SaveLearn
On the width of lattice-free simplicesAmong integral polytopes (vertices with integral coordinates), lattice-free polytopes - intersecting the lattice ONLY at their vertices- are of particular interestin combinatorics and geometry of…Jean-Michel Kantor·Sep 24, 1997SaveLearn
Wall-Crossing functors and D-modulesWe study Translation functors and Wall-Crossing functors on infinite dimensional representations of a complex semisimple Lie algebra using D-modules. This functorial machinery is then used to prove…Alexander Beilinson, Victor Ginzburg·Sep 22, 1997SaveLearn
On Moduli of G-bundles over Curves for exceptional GLet G be a simple and simply connected complex Lie group, g its Lie algebra. I remove the restriction ``G is of classical type or G2'' made on G in the papers of…Christoph Sorger·Sep 22, 1997SaveLearn
A generalization of curve genus for ample vector bundles, IA new genus g=g(X,) is defined for the pairs (X,) that consist of n-dimensional compact complex manifolds X and ample vector bundles of rank r less than n on X. In case…Hironobu Ishihara·Sep 22, 1997SaveLearn
A generalization of curve genus for ample vector bundles, IILet X be a compact complex manifold of dimension n 2 and an ample vector bundle of rank r<n on X. As the continuation of Part I, we further study the properties of g(X,) that is…Yoshiaki Fukuma, Hironobu Ishihara·Sep 22, 1997SaveLearn
The family GT of graded quotients of k[x,y] of given Hilbert functionThe nonsingular variety GT parametrizes all graded ideals I of R=k[x,y] for which the Hilbert function H(R/I)=T. The variety GT has a natural cellular decomposition: each cell V(E) corresponds to a…A. Iarrobino, J. Yameogo·Sep 18, 1997SaveLearn
Very ampleness of adjoint linear systems on smooth surfaces with boundaryLet M be a Q-divisor on a smooth surface over C. In this paper we give criteria for very ampleness of the adjoint of the round-up of M. (Similar results for global generation were given by Ein and…Vladimir Masek·Sep 17, 1997SaveLearn
Kawachi's invariant for normal surface singularitiesWe study a useful numerical invariant of normal surface singularities, introduced recently by T. Kawachi. Using this invariant, we give a quick proof of the (well-known) fact that all log-canonical…Vladimir Masek·Sep 17, 1997SaveLearn
Degeneracy Schemes and Schubert VarietiesA result of Zelevinsky states that an orbit closure in the space of representations of the equioriented quiver of type Ah is in bijection with the opposite cell in a Schubert variety of a partial…V. Lakshmibai, Peter Magyar·Sep 16, 1997SaveLearn
The Determinant of a Hypergeometric Period MatrixWe consider a function U=e-f0ΠjN fjαj on a real affine space, here f0,..,fN are linear functions, α1, ...,αN complex numbers. The zeros of the functions f1, ..., fN form…Y. Markov, V. Tarasov, A. Varchenko·Sep 15, 1997SaveLearn
A Complex Hyperbolic Structure for Moduli of Cubic SurfacesWe show that the moduli space M of marked cubic surfaces is biholomorphic to the quotient by a discrete group generated by complex reflections of the complex four-ball minus the reflection…Daniel Allcock, James A. Carlson, Domingo Toledo·Sep 12, 1997SaveLearn
Multiplier Ideals, Vanishing Theorem and ApplicationsThe purpose of this note is to give a survey of the algebraic properties of multiplier ideals, and illustrate some of their applications to classical projective geometry.Lawrence Ein·Sep 11, 1997SaveLearn