Okounkov bodies and Seshadri constants

Okounkov bodies, which are closed convex sets defined for big line bundles, have rich information on the line bundles. On the other hand, Seshadri constants are invariants which measure the positivity of line bundles. In this paper, we prove that Okounkov bodies give lower bounds of Seshadri constants.     

Seshadi constants via functions on Newton–Okounkov bodies

The aim of this note is to establish a somewhat surprising connection between functions on Newton–Okounkov bodies and Seshadri constants of line bundles on algebraic surfaces.     

Seshadri constants on rational surfaces with anticanonical pencils

We study a Seshadri constant at a general point on a rational surface whose anticanonical linear system contains a pencil. First, we describe a Seshadri constant of an ample line bundle on such a rational surface explicitly by the numerical data of the ample line bundle. Second, we classify log del Pezzo surfaces which are special in terms of the Seshadri constants of the anticanonical divisors when the anticanonical degree is between 4 and 9.     

Standard Monomial Theory for Bott–Samelson Varieties

Bott–Samelson varieties are an important tool in geometric representation theory [1, 3, 10, 25]. They were originally defined as desingularizations of Schubert varieties and share many of the properties of Schubert varieties. They have an action of a Borel subgroup, and the projective coordinate ring of a Bott–Samelson variety splits into certain generalized Demazure modules (which also appear in other contexts [22, 23]). Standard Monomial Theory, developed by Seshadri and the first author [15, 16], and recently completed by the second author [20], gives explicit bases for the Demazure modules associated to Schubert varieties. In this paper, we extend the techniques of [20] to give explicit bases for the generalized Demazure modules associated to Bott–Samelson varieties, thus proving a strengthened form of the results announced by the first and third authors in [12] (see also [13]). We also obtain more elementary proofs of the cohomology vanishing theorems of Kumar [10] and Mathieu [25]; of the projective normality of Bott–Samelson varieties; and of the Demazure character formula.     

One more proof of the Borodin-Okounkov formula for Toeplitz determinants

Recently, Borodin and Okounkov [2] established a remarkable identity for Toeplitz determinants. Two other proofs of this identity were subsequently found by Basor and Widom [1], who also extended the formula to the block case. We here give one more proof, also for the block case. This proof is based on a formula for the inverse of a finite block Toeplitz matrix obtained in the late seventies by Silbermann and the author.     

Seshadri fibrations of algebraic surfaces

We refine results of [6] and [10] which relate local invariants – Seshadri constants – of ample line bundles on surfaces to the global geometry – fibration structure. We show that the same picture emerges when looking at Seshadri constants measured at any finite subset of the given surface (© 2010 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Seshadri constants and Fano manifolds

In memory of Meeyoung Kim In this paper, we give a lower bound of Seshadri constants on smooth Fano varieties. More precisely, we show that on a smooth Fano manifold of dimension n whose anticanonical system is base point free, Seshadri constants of ample divisors are bounded from below by one over n–2. As a corollary we recover the earlier result on Fano threefolds. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000):14J45, 14N30.The author was supported in part by KOSEF Grant R14-2002-007-01001-0(2002).     

Newton–Okounkov convex bodies of Schubert varieties and polyhedral realizations of crystal bases

A Newton–Okounkov convex body is a convex body constructed from a projective variety with a valuation on its homogeneous coordinate ring; this is deeply connected with representation theory. For instance, the Littelmann string polytopes and the Feigin–Fourier–Littelmann–Vinberg polytopes are examples of Newton–Okounkov convex bodies. In this paper, we prove that the Newton–Okounkov convex body of a Schubert variety with respect to a specific valuation is identical to the Nakashima–Zelevinsky polyhedral realization of a Demazure crystal. As an application of this result, we show that Kashiwara’s involution (\(*\)-operation) corresponds to a change of valuations on the rational function field.     

Seshadri constants and the generation of jets

In this paper we explore the connection between Seshadri constants and the generation of jets. It is well known that one way to view Seshadri constants is to consider them as measuring the rate of growth of the number of jets that multiples of a line bundle generate. Here we ask, conversely, what we can say about the number of jets once the Seshadri constant is known. As an application of our results, we prove a characterization of projective space among all Fano varieties in terms of Seshadri constants.     

Boundary value problems for rotationally symmetric mean curvature flows

The motion of surfaces by their mean curvature has been studied by several authors from different points of view. K. A. Brake studied this problem from the geometric measure theory point of view, the parametric problem was studied by G. Huisken [5]. Nonparametric mean curavture flow with boundary conditions was studied in [6] and [7]. Rotationally symmetric mean curvature flows have been treated by G. Dziuk, B. Kawohl [3], but also by S. Altschuler, S. B. Angenent and Y. Giga [2]. In this paper we consider the case in which the initial surface has rotational symmetry and we shall generalize the results in [3] in the sense that we shall give more general boundary conditions which enforce the formation of a singularity in finite time. The proofs rely entirely on parabolic maximum principles. Received: 6 September 2006     

A generalization of results of P. Erdös,G. Katona,and D. J. Kleitman concerning Sperner's theorem

A result of Sperner [1] determining the maximal number of subsets of a given set, such that no one is included in the other, has been generalized and strengthened modifying the restrictive condition by Erdös [2], by Katona [3], and Kleitman [7], and by others [4, 5]. A different kind of generalization has been obtained by de Bruijn, Tenbergen, and Kruywijk [6] using the same restrictive condition but for more general entities than sets, namely, for systems in which the elements may occur more than once. That approach is fundamental for number-theoretical considerations since the totality of prime divisors of a given number (each considered with its multiplicity) is of that nature. In this paper we will generalize the results of [2] and [3, 7] in the sense of [6].     

Seshadri constants and degrees of defining polynomials

In this paper, we study a relation between Seshadri constants and degrees of defining polynomials. In particular, we compute the Seshadri constants on Fano varieties obtained as complete intersections in rational homogeneous spaces of Picard number one.     

Base loci of linear series are numerically determined

We introduce a numerical invariant, called a moving Seshadri constant, which measures the local positivity of a big line bundle at a point. We then show how moving Seshadri constants determine the stable base locus of a big line bundle.

     

Linear Systems on Fano Threefolds. I

Abstract

In this note, we classify all the polarized Fano threefold (X, H) with Bs|H|¬ = ?. As corollaries we obtained that (1) the very ample part of the conjecture of Fujita holds for smooth Fano threefolds and (2) global Seshadri constants of ample divisors on Fano threefolds are bounded from below by 1 except three types of polarized Fano threefolds.     

On the Seshadri constants of adjoint line bundles

In the present paper we study the possible values of Seshadri constants. While in general every positive rational number appears as the local Seshadri constant of some ample line bundle, we point out that for adjoint line bundles there are explicit lower bounds depending only on the dimension of the underlying variety. In the surface case, where the optimal lower bound is 1/2, we characterize all possible values in the range between 1/2 and 1??there are surprisingly few. As expected, one obtains even more restrictive results for the Seshadri constants of adjoints of very ample line bundles. Finally, we study Seshadri constants of adjoint line bundles in the multi-point setting.     

A generalization of the AZ identity

The identity discovered in [1] can be viewed as a sharpening of the LYM inequality ([3], [4], [5]). It was extended in [2] so that it covers also Bollobás' inequality [6]. Here we present a further generalization and demonstrate that it shares with its predecessors the usefullness for uniqueness proofs in extremal set theory.     

Cohomology of the moduli of parabolic vector bundles

The purpose of this paper is to compute the Betti numbers of the moduli space ofparabolic vector bundles on a curve (see Seshadri [7], [8] and Mehta & Seshadri [4]), in the case where every semi-stable parabolic bundle is necessarily stable. We do this by generalizing the method of Atiyah and Bott [1] in the case of moduli of ordinary vector bundles. Recall that (see Seshadri [7]) the underlying topological space of the moduli of parabolic vector bundles is the space of equivalence classes of certain unitary representations of a discrete subgroup Γ which is a lattice in PSL (2,R). (The lattice Γ need not necessarily be co-compact). While the structure of the proof is essentially the same as that of Atiyah and Bott, there are some difficulties of a technical nature in the parabolic case. For instance the Harder-Narasimhan stratification has to be further refined in order to get the connected strata. These connected strata turn out to have different codimensions even when they are part of the same Harder-Narasimhan strata. If in addition to ‘stable = semistable’ the rank and degree are coprime, then the moduli space turns out to be torsion-free in its cohomology. The arrangement of the paper is as follows. In § 1 we prove the necessary basic results about algebraic families of parabolic bundles. These are generalizations of the corresponding results proved by Shatz [9]. Following this, in § 2 we generalize the analytical part of the argument of Atiyah and Bott (§ 14 of [1]). Finally in § 3 we show how to obtain an inductive formula for the Betti numbers of the moduli space. We illustrate our method by computing explicitly the Betti numbers in the special case of rank = 2, and one parabolic point.     

Non-annulation effective et positivité locale des fibrés en droites amples adjoints

We show how to use effective non-vanishing to prove that Seshadri constants of some ample divisors are bigger than 1 on smooth threefolds whose anticanonical bundle is nef or on Fano varieties of small coindice. We prove the effective non-vanishing conjecture of Ionescu–Kawamata in dimension 3 in the case of line bundles of “high” volume.