Asymptotic Growth of the Number of Classes of Real Plane Algebraic Curves as the Degree Grows

The work presents some results on the asymptotics of the number of real plane algebraic curves as the degree grows. In particular, we obtain the asymptotics of the number of curves considered up to the isotopy and rigid isotopy, as well as the number of isotopic classes of maximal curves realizable by T-curves. Some results are generalized to hypersurfaces in nonsingular algebraic varieties of arbitrary dimension. Bibliography: 18 titles.     

Isotopies of Real Trigonal Curves on Hirzebruch Surfaces

The rigid isotopy classification of nonsingular real algebraic curves of bidegree on the Hirzebruch surface (the projective plane with a point blown up) is obtained. Consequences for the space of curves with a single node or a cusp on a hyperboloid and on are given. Bibliography: 15 titles.     

Symmetric Orientations of Dividing T-curves

In 1974, Rokhlim introduced complex orientations for nonsingular real algebraic plane projective curves of type I. Here we give a definition of symmetric orientations and of "type" for T-curves which are PL-curves constructed using a combinatorial method called T-construction. An important aspect of T-construction is that, under particular conditions, the constructed T-curve has the isotopy type of a nonsingular real algebraic plane projective curve. T-construction is in fact a particular case of the method of construction of real algebraic projective varieties due to O. Ya. Viro. We prove that if an algebraic curve is associated to a T-curve by the Viro process, then the type of the T-curve coincides with the type of the algebraic curve and its symmetric orientations are complex orientations as defined by Rokhlin. The main result of this paper is the classification theorem for T-curves of type I.     

Configurations of six skew lines

In this paper we give a classification of nonsingular configurations of 6 lines of the space RP³ with respect to right isotopy (in the course of a rigid isotopy the lines remain pairwise disjoint lines) and prove that up to rigid isotopies nonsingular configurations of 6 lines are not determined by the linking coefficients.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 167, pp. 121–134, 1988.     

Real two-dimensional intersections of a quadric by a cubic

Mathematical Notes - The paper is devoted to finding the rigid isotopy classes of real projective surfaces that are obtained from nonsingular cubic sections of a chosen nonsingular real quadric....     

Real GM-biquadrics

We consider real algebraic varieties that are the intersection of two real quadrics. For brevity, we refer to such varieties as real biquadrics. The rigid isotopy classes of real biquadrics have been described long ago. In the present paper, we find the rigid isotopy classes in which the biquadrics are GM-varieties.     

A nonalgebraic patchwork

Itenberg and Shustin’s pseudoholomorphic curve patchworking is in principle more flexible than Viro’s original algebraic one. It was natural to wonder if the former method allows one to construct nonalgebraic objects. In this paper we construct the first examples of patchworked real pseudoholomorphic curves in Σ _n whose position with respect to the pencil of lines cannot be realized by any real algebraic curve of the same bidegree. Both authors are very grateful to the Max Planck Institute für Mathematik in Bonn for its financial support and excellent working conditions.     

Symmetric Sextics in the Real Projective Plane and Auxiliary Conics

In the present paper, the already-known list of the rigid isotopy classes of nonsingular curves of degree 6 in containing a symmetric curve is obtained in an elementary way. To prove that a curve in a given rigid isotopy class is not symmetric, we study the position of the curve with respect to auxiliary conics. Bibliography: 21 titles.     

New M-Curve of Degree 8

We construct a plane real algebraic curve of degree 8 with 22 ovals (an M-curve) realizing the isotopy type whose realizability was unknown.     

Topology of Maximally Writhed Real Algebraic Knots

Oleg Viro introduced an invariant of rigid isotopy for real algebraic knots in ??³ which can be viewed as a first order Vassiliev invariant. In this paper we look at real algebraic knots of degree d with the maximal possible value of this invariant. We show that for a given d all such knots are topologically isotopic and explicitly identify their knot type.     

Vector bundles on a product of real algebraic curves

We study complex vector bundles on a product of nonsingular real algebraic curves.

     

Bidegree (2,1) parametrizable surfaces in projective 3-space

The main purpose of this paper is to study projective classes of bidegree (2,1) parametrizable surfaces in a real projective 3-space. It turns out that the implicit degree of such surfaces is two, three, or four, and singular curves have degree three. We describe all possibilities for singular curves and pinch points on such surfaces. The presentation has been made from the point of view of analytic geometry and does not presume a deep knowledge of algebraic geometry. Partially supported by the Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation. Vilnius University, Naugarduko 24, 2006 Vilnius, Lithuania. Published in Lietuvos Matematikos Rinkinys, Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 379–402, July–September, 1998.     

Clifford's inequality for real algebraic curves

We improve Clifford's Inequality for real algebraic curves. As an application we improve Harnack's Inequality for real space curves having a certain number of pseudo-lines. Another application involves the number of ovals that a real space curve can have.     

Asymptotic behaviour of Betti numbers of real algebraic surfaces

Let be a nonsingular real algebraic surface of degree m in the complex projective space and its real point set in . In the spirit of the sixteenth Hilbert's problem, one can ask for each degree m about the maximal possible value of the Betti number (i=0 or 1). We show that is asymptotically equivalent to for some real number and prove inequalities and . Received: April 26, 2000     

Rigid isotopy classification of real quadric line complexes and associated Kummer surfaces

The paper deals with rigid isotopy classes of three-dimensional real quadric line complexes and associated Kummer surfaces. We prove that there exist twelve rigid isotopy classes of real quadric line complexes and seven rigid isotopy classes of associated Kummer surfaces. Characteristics determining these rigid isotopy classes are given.     

A Transfer Principle in the Real Plane from Nonsingular Algebraic Curves to Polynomial Vector Fields

For every nonsingular algebraic curve C of degree m in the real plane a polynomial vector field of degree 2m–1 is constructed, which has exactly the ovals of C as attracting limit cycles. Therefore, every progress on the algebraic part of Hilbert's 16th problem automatically yields progress on its dynamical part.     

Real Quotient Singularities and Nonsingular Real Algebraic Curves in the Boundary of the Moduli Space

The quotient of a real analytic manifold by a properly discontinuous group action is, in general, only a semianalytic variety. We study the boundary of such a quotient, i.e., the set of points at which the quotient is not analytic. We apply the results to the moduli space M_g/ of nonsingular real algebraic curves of genus g (g2). This moduli space has a natural structure of a semianalytic variety. We determine the dimension of the boundary of any connected component of M_g/. It turns out that every connected component has a nonempty boundary. In particular, no connected component of M_g/ is real analytic. We conclude that M_g/ is not a real analytic variety.     

Rigidity and moduli space in Real Algebraic Geometry

Let R be a real closed field and let X be an affine algebraic variety over R. We say that X is universally map rigid (UMR for short) if, for each irreducible affine algebraic variety Z over R, the set of nonconstant rational maps from Z to X is finite. A bijective map from an affine algebraic variety over R to X is called weak change of the algebraic structure of X if it is regular and φ⁻¹ is a Nash map, which preserves nonsingular points. We prove the following rigidity theorem: every affine algebraic variety over R is UMR up to a weak change of its algebraic structure. Let us introduce another notion. Let Y be an affine algebraic variety over R. We say that X and Y are algebraically unfriendly if all the rational maps from X to Y and from Y to X are trivial, i.e., Zariski locally constant. From the preceding theorem, we infer that, if dim (X)≥1, then there exists a set of weak changes of the algebraic structure of X such that, for each t,s ∈ R with t≠s, and are algebraically unfriendly. This result implies the following expected fact: For each (nonsingular) affine algebraic variety X over R of positive dimension, the natural Nash structure of X does not determine the algebraic structure of X. In fact, the moduli space of birationally nonisomorphic (nonsingular) affine algebraic varieties over R, which are Nash isomorphic to X, has the same cardinality of R. This result was already known under the special assumption that R is the field of real numbers and X is compact and nonsingular. The author is a member of GNSAGA of CNR, partially supported by MURST and European Research Training Network RAAG 2002–2006 (HPRN–CT–00271).     

Numerical Schottky Uniformizations

A real algebraic curve of algebraic genus g ≥ 2 is a pair (S, τ), where S is a closed Riemann surface of genus g and τ is a reflection on S (anticonformal involution with fixed points). In this note, we discuss a numerical (Burnside) program which permits to obtain a Riemann period matrix of the surface S in terms of an uniformizing real Schottky group. If we denote by Aut₊(S, τ) the group of conformal automorphisms of S commuting with the real structure τ, then it is a well known fact that |Aut₊(S,τ)| ≥ 12(g−1). We say that (S,τ) is maximally symmetric if |Aut₊(S,τ)|=12(g−1). We work explicitly such a numerical program in the case of maximally symmetric real curves of genus two. We construct a real Schottky uniformization for each such real curve and we use the numerical program to obtain a real algebraic curve, a Riemann period matrix and the accessory parameters in terms of the corresponding Schottky uniformization. In particular, we are able to give for Bolza’s curve a Schottky uniformization (at least numerically), providing an example for which the inverse uniformization theorem is numerically solved.Partially supported by Projects Fondecyt 1030252 1030373 and UTFSM 12.03.21     

On Homotopy Groups of Real Algebraic Varieties and their Complexifications

Let X ₀ be a topological component of a nonsingular real algebraic variety and i:X → X _C is a nonsingular projective complexification of X. In this paper, we will study the homomorphism on homotopy groups induced by the inclusion map i:X ₀ → X _C and obtain several results using rational homotopy theory and other standard tools of homotopy theory.