Note on Fano 3-folds

LetE be an ample vector bundle of rankr on a compact complex manifoldX of dimension 3 with detE=–K _x, andi(X) the index ofX. Then it is proved in this note thati(X)r unless (X,E)(¹ × ²,p*O(1) q*), wherep,q are the projections and is isomorphic toO(2) O(1) or the tangent bundleT of ². This result gives a counterexample to the conjecture formed by T. Peternell.     

On Birational Maps and Jacobian Matrices

One is concerned with Cremona-like transformations, i.e., rational maps from ⁿ to ^m that are birational onto the image Y ^m and, moreover, the inverse map from Y to ⁿ lifts to ^m . We establish a handy criterion of birationality in terms of certain syzygies and ranks of appropriate matrices and, moreover, give an effective method to explicitly obtaining the inverse map. A handful of classes of Cremona and Cremona-like transformations follow as applications.     

Differentiable structures with zero entropy on simply connected 4-manifolds

We show that a closed 4-dimensional simply connected topological manifoldM admits a differentiable structure with aC Riemannian metric whose geodesic flow has zero topological entropy if and only ifM is homeomorphic toS ⁴, ²,S ²×S ², or ²#².     

Legitimate colorings of projective planes

For a projective plane _n of ordern, let( _n ) denote the minimum numberk, so that there is a coloring of the points of _n ink colors such that no two distinct lines contain precisely the same number of points of each color. Answering a question of A. Rosa, we show that for all sufficiently largen, 5 ( _n ) 8 for every projective plane _n of ordern. Research supported in part by Allon Fellowship and by a grant from the United States Israel Binational Science Foundation     

On the smoothness of the moduli space of mathematical instanton bundles

In this paper we prove that the moduli spaces MI _2n+1(k) of mathematical instanton bundles on ²ⁿ⁺¹ with quantum number k are singular for n 2 and k 3 ,giving a positive answer to a conjecture made by Ancona and Ottaviani in 1993.     

An Inequality for Tail Probabilities of Martingales with Bounded Differences

Let M _n =X₁+...+X_n be a martingale with bounded differences X_m=M_m-M_m-1 such that {|X_m| _m}=1 with some nonnegative _m. Write ²= ₁ ² + ... + _n ² . We prove the inequalities {M _nx}c(1-(x/)), {M _n x} 1- c(1- (-x/)) with a constant . The result yields sharp inequalities in some models related to the measure concentration phenomena.     

A note on generic projections

Let X^N=²ⁿ_K be a subvariety of dimension n and P^N a generic point. If the tangent variety TanX is equal to ^N then for generic points x, y of X the projective tangent spaces t_xX and t_yX meet in one point P=P(x,y). The main result of this paper is that the rational map (x,y)P(x,y) is dominant. In other words, a generic point P is uniquely determined by the ramification locus R(_P) of the linear projection _P:X^N–1.This paper was supported by the DFG Schwerpunkt Global methods in complex analysis, MUR and the Research Group GNSAGA of INDAM. This investigation was also supported by the University of Bologna, funds for selected research topics     

A Remark on Bernstein,Prokhorov, Bennett,Hoeffding, and Talagrand Inequalities

Let X ₁,..., X_n be independent random variables such that {X_j 1}=1 and E X _j=0 for all j. We prove an upper bound for the tail probabilities of the sum M _n=X₁+...+ X_n. Namely, we prove the inequality {M _nx} 3.7 {S_n x}, where S _n=₁+...+ _n is a sum of centered independent identically distributed Bernoulli random variables such that E S _n ² =ME M _n ² and {_k=1}=E S _n ² /(n+E S _n ² ) for all k (we call a random variable Bernoulli if it assumes at most two values). The inequality holds for x at which the survival function x{S _nx} has a jump down. For remaining x, the inequality still holds provided that we interpolate the function between the adjacent jump points linearly or log-linearly. If necessary, in order to estimate {S _nx} one can use special bounds for binomial probabilities. Up to the factor at most 2.375, the inequality is final. The inequality improves the classical Bernstein, Prokhorov, Bennett, Hoeffding, Talagrand, and other bounds.     

The singularH 2,2-invariant quartic surfaces in ℙ3

AnH _2,2-invariant quartic surface in ₃ is a quartic surface in ₃ invariant under the Heisenberg groupH _2,2 of level (2, 2), the family ofH _2,2-invariant quartic surfaces is parametrized by ₄. For each ₄, the corresponding quartic surfaceX will be a Kummer surface, ifX is singular. The equation for { = 0} ₄ parametrizing all Kummer surfaces is well known. We find another more symmetric form (with respect to a 5-dimensional representation of the symmetric group S₆) for this equation.The aim of this note is to describe all singularH _2,2-invariant quartic surfaces in ₃.     

New examples of Kobayashi hyperbolic surfaces in ℂℙ3

We show that a generic small deformation of the union of two generic cones in ³ of degree 4 is Kobayashi hyperbolic. Hence we obtain new examples of hyperbolic surfaces in ³ of any given degree d 8.__________Translated from Funktsionalnyi Analiz i Ego Prilozheniya, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 90–94, 2005Original Russian Text Copyright © by B. Shiffman and M. ZaidenbergThe second authors research was supported in part by NSF grant No. DMS-0100474.Translated by B. Shiffman and M. Zaidenberg     

Designs and partial geometries over finite fields

Let be a finite field, and let (, B) be a nontrivial 2-(n, k, 1)-design over . Then each point induces a (k–1)-spread S on /. (, B) is said to be a geometric design if S is a geometric spread on / for each . In this paper, we prove that there are no geometric designs over any finite field .Research partially supported by NSF grant DMS-8703229.     

A sharp bound for the number of points where a rank 3 stable reflexive sheaf is not free

Let ³ be the projective space over an algebraically closed field k and let E be a rank 3 stable reflexive sheaf on ³ such that its restriction to a general plane is stable. The aim of this paper is to give a sharp bound of s= lengthExt ¹ (E,G)in terms of the Chern classes of E.     

Computing a longest common subsequence for a set of strings

The known 2-string LCS problem is generalized to finding a Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) for a set of strings. A new, general approach that systematically enumerates common subsequences is proposed for the solution. Assuming a finite symbol set, it is shown that the presented scheme requires a preprocessing time that grows linearly with the total length of the input strings and a processing time that grows linearly with (K), the number of strings, and () the number of matches among them. The only previous algorithm for the generalized LCS problem takesO(K·|S ₁|·|S ₂|·...|S _k |) execution time, where |S _i | denotes the length of the stringS _i . Since typically is a very small percentage of |S ₁|·|S ₂|·...·|S _k |, the proposed method may be considered to be much more efficient than the straightforward dynamic programming approach.     

Géométrie Orthogonale Non Symétrique et Congruences Quadratiques (Nonsymmetric Orthogonal Geometry and Quadratic Congruences)

This paper is devoted to the study of quadratic congruences, which appear in the theory of exceptional bundles on projective spaces. A quadratic congruence associates to each point P of a projective space a quadratic in containing P. We study several geometric constructions of quadratic congruences and try to classify them.     

Monads and moduli of vector bundles

Horrocks has shown that every vector bundle on ₂ and ₃ admits a certain double-ended resolution by line bundles, which he called a monad. We reprove Horrocks' results taking much care of uniqueness of the monads so obtained. This technique should be useful for constructing moduli spaces of stable vector bundles.     

Local Recognition Of Non-Incident Point-Hyperplane Graphs

Let be a projective space. By H() we denote the graph whose vertices are the non-incident point-hyperplane pairs of , two vertices (p,H) and (q,I) being adjacent if and only if p I and q H. In this paper we give a characterization of the graph H() (as well as of some related graphs) by its local structure. We apply this result by two characterizations of groups G with PSL _n ( )GPGL _n ( ), by properties of centralizers of some (generalized) reflections. Here is the (skew) field of coordinates of .     

Local and relative Gromov-Witten invariants of the projective plane

Let B be a line or a smooth conic in ². We give a recursive formula for certain linear combinations of the genus 0 relative Gromov-Witten invariants of (²,B). After change of sign, this is equivalent to the WDVV equation for the equivariant local Gromov-Witten invariants of ² in ᵊA(–B). We show that these invariants coincide up to sign. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000):14N35, 14N10     

Twistor holomorphic Lagrangian surfaces in the complex projective and hyperbolic planes

We completely classify all the twistor holomorphic Lagrangian immersions in the complex projective plane ², i.e. those Lagrangian immersions such that their twistor lifts to the twistor space over ² are holomorphic. This classification provides a one-parameter family of examples of Lagrangian spheres in ².Research partially supported by a DGICYT grant No. PB91-0731.     

Normal surfaces of degree 7 in ℙ n

Let Y be a surface of degree 7 of the complex projective space ⁿ , linearly normal and not contained in any hyperplane of ⁿ . The purpose of this paper is to describe the normal singular surfaces of degree 7 embedded in ⁿ , as above. The main contribution of this paper is to describe all normal singular projective surfaces with sectional genus 4.     

Automorphisms of a Generic Jacobian Kummer Surface

For a generic quartic surface F in ³ with sixteen nodes, we shall prove that every birational automorphism of F is induced by a Cremona transformation of ³.