Augmented base loci and restricted volumes on normal varieties

We extend to normal projective varieties defined over an arbitrary algebraically closed field a result of Ein, Lazarsfeld, Musta??, Nakamaye and Popa characterizing the augmented base locus (aka non-ample locus) of a line bundle on a smooth projective complex variety as the union of subvarieties on which the restricted volume vanishes. We also give a proof of the folklore fact that the complement of the augmented base locus is the largest open subset on which the Kodaira map defined by large and divisible multiples of the line bundle is an isomorphism.     

Projective threefolds on which acts with 2-dimensional general orbits

The birational geometry of projective threefolds on which acts with 2-dimensional general orbits is studied from the viewpoint of the minimal model theory of projective threefolds. These threefolds are closely related to the minimal rational threefolds classified by Enriques, Fano and Umemura. The main results are (i) the -birational classification of such threefolds and (ii) the classification of relatively minimal models in the fixed point free cases.

     

On the Regularity of Codimension Two Surfaces and Threefolds with Singular Loci

ABSTRACT

For projective codimension two surfaces and threefolds whose singular locus is one dimensional, we get the sharp Castelnuovo–Mumford regularity bound in terms of degrees of defining equations and give the classification of nearly extremal cases. This is a generalization of the result of Bertram et al.     

On rational connectedness of globally F-regular threefolds

In this paper, we show that projective globally F  -regular threefolds, defined over an algebraically closed field of characteristic p≥11$p\ge 11$, are rationally chain connected.     

Families of rationally simply connected varieties over surfaces and torsors for semisimple groups

Under suitable hypotheses, we prove that a form of a projective homogeneous variety G/P defined over the function field of a surface over an algebraically closed field has a rational point. The method uses an algebro-geometric analogue of simple connectedness replacing the unit interval by the projective line. As a consequence, we complete the proof of Serre’s Conjecture II in Galois cohomology for function fields over an algebraically closed field.     

Calabi–Yau Threefolds and Moduli of Abelian Surfaces I

We describe birational models and decide the rationality/unirationality of moduli spaces A _d (and A _d ^lev ) of (1, d)-polarized Abelian surfaces (with canonical level structure, respectively) for small values of d. The projective lines identified in the rational/unirational moduli spaces correspond to pencils of Abelian surfaces traced on nodal threefolds living naturally in the corresponding ambient projective spaces, and whose small resolutions are new Calabi–Yau threefolds with Euler characteristic zero.     

Complete intersections and rational equivalence

A new criterion for rational equivalence of cycles on a projective variety over an algebraically closed field is given, and some consequences considered.     

Correspondences between modular Calabi–Yau fiber products

We describe two ways to construct finite rational morphisms between fiber products of rational elliptic surfaces with section and some Calabi–Yau varieties. We use them to construct correspondences between such fiber products that admit at most five singular fibers and rigid Calabi–Yau threefolds.     

K-Theory of Surfaces at the Prime 2

We prove that for smooth surfaces over real closed fields, and a class of smooth projective surfaces over a real number field, the map between mod 2 algebraic and étale K-theory is an isomorphism in sufficiently large degrees. For a class of smooth projective surfaces over a real closed field, including rational surfaces, complete intersections and K3-surfaces over the real numbers, we explicate the abutment of the mod 2 motivic cohomology to algebraic K-theory spectral sequence.     

Deformation-obstruction theory for complexes via Atiyah and Kodaira–Spencer classes

We give a universal approach to the deformation-obstruction theory of objects of the derived category of coherent sheaves over a smooth projective family. We recover and generalise the obstruction class of Lowen and Lieblich, and prove that it is a product of Atiyah and Kodaira–Spencer classes. This allows us to obtain deformation-invariant virtual cycles on moduli spaces of objects of the derived category on threefolds.     

Projective degenerations of K3 surfaces,Gaussian maps,and Fano threefolds

Summary In this article we exhibit certain projective degenerations of smoothK3 surfaces of degree 2g–2 in ^g (whose Picard group is generated by the hyperplane class), to a union of two rational normal scrolls, and also to a union of planes. As a consequence we prove that the general hyperplane section of suchK3 surfaces has a corank one Gaussian map, ifg=11 org13. We also prove that the general such hyperplane section lies on a uniqueK3 surface, up to projectivities. Finally we present a new approach to the classification of prime Fano threefolds of index one, which does not rely on the existence of a line.Oblatum 1-II-1993 & 24-V-1993Research supported in part by NSF grant DMS-9104058     

Residual intersection theory with reducible schemes

We develop a formula (Theorem 5.2) which allows to compute top Chern classes of vector bundles on the vanishing locus V(s) of a section of this bundle. This formula particularly applies in the case when V(s) is the union of local complete intersections giving the individual contribution of each component and their mutual intersections. We conclude with applications to the enumeration of rational curves in complete intersections in projective space.     

Towards the classification of weak Fano threefolds with ρ = 2

In this paper, examples of type II Sarkisov links between smooth complex projective Fano threefolds with Picard number one are provided. To show examples of these links, we study smooth weak Fano threefolds X with Picard number two and with a divisorial extremal ray. We assume that the pluri-anticanonical morphism of X contracts only a finite number of curves. The numerical classification of these particular smooth weak Fano threefolds is completed and the geometric existence of some numerical cases is proven.     

Examples of Calabi–Yau Threefolds as Covers of Almost-Fano Threefolds

We give a method for producing examples of Calabi–Yau threefolds as covers of degree d ≤ 8 of almost-Fano threefolds, computing explicitely their Euler– Poincaré characteristic. Such a method generalizes the well-knownclassical construction of Calabi–Yau threefolds as double covers of the projective space branched along octic surfaces.     

Smooth threefolds in ${\Bbb P}^5$ without apparent triple or quadruple points and a quadruple-point formula

For a projective variety X of codimension 2 in defined over the complex number field , it is traditionally said that X has no apparent -ple points if the -secant lines of X do not fill up the ambient projective space , equivalently, the locus of -ple points of a generic projection of X to ${\Bbb P}^{n+1}$ is empty. We show that a smooth threefold in has no apparent triple points if and only if it is contained in a quadric hypersurface. We also obtain an enumerative formula counting the quadrisecant lines of X passing through a general point of and give necessary cohomological conditions for smooth threefolds in without apparent quadruple points. This work is intended to generalize the work of F. Severi [fSe] and A. Aure [Au], where it was shown that a smooth surface in has no triple points if and only if it is either a quintic elliptic scroll or contained in a hyperquadric. Furthermore we give open questions along these lines. Received: 24 January 2000 / Published online: 18 June 2001     

Symplectic enumeration

Every complex projective space of odd dimension carries a natural contact structure. We give first steps towards the enumeration of curves in ℙ³ tangent to the contact structure. Such a curve is involutive in the sense that its homogeneous ideal is closed under Poisson bracket. Involutive curves in ℙ³ contained in a plane split as a union of concurrent lines. We give a formula for the number of plane involutive curves of a given degree in ℙ³ meeting the appropriate number of lines. We also discuss strategies to deal with the enumeration of involutive rational curves.     

Moduli of reflexive sheaves on smooth projective 3-folds

We compute the expected dimension of the moduli space of torsion-free rank 2 sheaves at a point corresponding to a stable reflexive sheaf, and give conditions for the existence of a perfect tangent-obstruction complex on a class of smooth projective threefolds; this class includes Fano and Calabi-Yau threefolds. We also explore both local and global relationships between moduli spaces of reflexive rank 2 sheaves and the Hilbert scheme of curves.     

Derived categories of Fano threefolds

We consider the structure of the derived categories of coherent sheaves on Fano threefolds with Picard number 1 and describe a strange relation between derived categories of different threefolds. In the appendix we discuss how the ring of algebraic cycles of a smooth projective variety is related to the Grothendieck group of its derived category. Published in Russian in Trudy Matematicheskogo Instituta imeni V.A. Steklova, 2009, Vol. 264, pp. 116–128. In memory of V.A. Iskovskikh