Notes on very ample vector bundles on 3-folds

Let be a very ample vector bundle of rank two on a smooth complex projective threefold X. An inequality about the third Segre class of is provided when is nef but not big, and when a suitable positive multiple of defines a morphism X → B with connected fibers onto a smooth projective curve B, where K_X is the canonical bundle of X. As an application, the case where the genus of B is positive and has a global section whose zero locus is a smooth hyperelliptic curve of genus ≧ 2 is investigated, and our previous result is improved for threefolds. Received: 27 January 2005; revised: 26 March 2005     

On Kulikov’s problem

Kulikov has given an étale morphism of degree d > 1 which is surjective modulo codimension two with X simply connected, settling his generalized jacobian problem. His method reduces the problem to finding a hypersurface and a subgroup of index d generated by geometric generators. By contrast we show that if D has simple normal crossings away from a set of codimension three and meets the hyperplane at infinity transversely, then necessarily d = 1. Received: 21 November 2006     

Positive bases in spaces of polynomials

For a nonempty compact set we determine the maximal possible dimension of a subspace of polynomial functions over Ω with degree at most m which possesses a positive basis. The exact value of this maximum depends on topological features of Ω, and we will see that in many of the cases m can be achieved. Whereas only for low m or finite sets Ω it is possible that we have a subspace X with positive basis and with dim X = m + 1. Hence there is no Ω for which a positive basis exists in for all . This work was accomplished during the 2^nd author’s stay in Paris under his Marie Curie fellowship, contract # MEIF-CT-2005-022927.     

On the moduli of surfaces admitting genus two fibrations over elliptic curves

In this paper, we study the structure, deformations and the moduli spaces of complex projective surfaces admitting genus two fibrations over elliptic curves. We observe that a surface admitting a smooth fibration as above is elliptic, and we employ results on the moduli of polarized elliptic surfaces to construct moduli spaces of these smooth fibrations. In the case of nonsmooth fibrations, we relate the moduli spaces to the Hurwitz schemes of morphisms of degree n from elliptic curves to the modular curve X(d), d ≥ 3. Ultimately, we show that the moduli spaces in the nonsmooth case are fiber spaces over the affine line with fibers determined by the components of . Received: 30 August 2006     

Intersecting subvarieties of $${G_m^n}$$ with algebraic subgroups

Let be an irreducible closed subvariety defined over . We bound the height of algebraic points on X that are in a certain sense close to the union of all algebraic subgroup of of dimension m < n/dim X. The bound we obtain is effective and will be expressed as a function of the height of X, the degree of X, and n. We then apply this bound to derive certain finiteness results if m is also strictly less than n − dim X.     

Uniformly summing sets of operators on spaces of vector–valued continuous functions

Let X, Y be Banach spaces. We say that a set is uniformly p–summing if the series is uniformly convergent for whenever (x_n) belongs to . We consider uniformly summing sets of operators defined on a -space and prove, in case X does not contain a copy of c₀, that is uniformly summing iff is, where T (φ x) = (T^#φ) x for all and x∈X. We also characterize the sets with the property that is uniformly summing viewed in . Received: 1 July 2005     

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).     

Deterministic extractors for affine sources over large fields

An (n,k)-affine source over a finite field is a random variable X = (X ₁,..., X _n ) ∈ , which is uniformly distributed over an (unknown) k-dimensional affine subspace of . We show how to (deterministically) extract practically all the randomness from affine sources, for any field of size larger than n ^c (where c is a large enough constant). Our main results are as follows:

Weakly equicompact sets of operators defined on Banach spaces

Let X and Y be Banach spaces. We say that a set (the space of all weakly compact operators from X into Y) is weakly equicompact if, for every bounded sequence (x_n) in X, there exists a subsequence (x_k(n)) so that (Tx_k(n)) is weakly uniformly convergent for T ∈ M. We study some properties of weakly equicompact sets and, among other results, we prove: 1) if is collectively weakly compact, then M^* is weakly equicompact iff M^** x^**={T^** x^** : T ∈ M} is relatively compact in Y for every x^** ∈X^**; 2) weakly equicompact sets are precompact in for the topology of uniform convergence on the weakly null sequences in X. Received: 14 February 2005; revised: 1 June 2005     

Additive group actions on Danielewski varieties and the cancellation problem

Given complex algebraic varieties X and Y of the same dimension, the Cancellation Problem asks if an isomorphism between X  ×  and Y  ×  induces an isomorphism between X and Y. Iitaka and Fujita (J. Fac. Sci. Univ. 24:123–127, 1977) established that the answer is positive for a large class of varieties of any dimension. In 1989, Danielewski constructed a counterexample using smooth rational affine surfaces. His construction was further generalized by Fieseler (Comment. Math. Helvetici 69:5–27, 1994) and Wilkens (C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. I Math. 326(9):1111–1116, 1998) to describe a larger class of affine surfaces. Here we introduce higher-dimensional analogues of these surfaces. By studying algebraic actions of the additive group on certain of these varieties, we obtain new counterexamples to the Cancellation Problem in every dimension d ≥ 2.     

Symmetric Tensors And Geometry of {\mathbb{P}} ^N Subvarieties

This paper using a geometric approach produces vanishing and nonvanishing results concerning the spaces of twisted symmetric differentials on subvarieties , with k ≤ m. Emphasis is given to the case of k = m which is special and whose nonvanishing results on the dimensional range dim X > 2/3(N − 1) are related to the space of quadrics containing X and the variety of all tangent trisecant lines of X. The paper ends with an application showing that the twisted symmetric plurigenera, along smooth families of projective varieties X_t are not invariant even for α arbitrarily large. Received: September 2006, Revision: May 2007, Accepted: June 2007     

Characterization of nearly Schroeder-Bernstein quadruples for Banach spaces

Let X and Y be Banach spaces such that each of them is isomorphic to a complemented subspace of the other. In 1996, W. T. Gowers solved the Schroeder-Bernstein problem for Banach spaces by showing that X is not necessarily isomorphic to Y . Let (p, q, r, s) be a quadruple in with p + q  ≥  2 and r + s ≥  2. Suppose that for every pair of Banach spaces X and Y isomorphic to complemented subspaces of each other and satisfying the following Decomposition Scheme

Compactifications of contractible affine 3-folds into smooth Fano 3-folds with <Emphasis Type="Italic">B</Emphasis><Subscript>2</Subscript>=2

After the contributions of Furushima, Nakayama, Peternell and Schneider, in 1993, Furushima [Fur93] finally succeeded in the classification of the compactifications of the affine 3-space into smooth Fano 3-folds with B₂=1. In this paper, we consider the compactifications of the contractible affine 3-folds X (not necessarily X=) into smooth Fano 3-folds V with B₂=2. Consequently, we classify all such compactifications X↪(V,D₁∪D₂) in the case where K_V+D₁+D₂ is not nef. Furthermore, we see that infinitely many mutually non-isomorphic exotic 's can be compactified into Fano 3-folds with B₂=2. This phenomenon never occurs when B₂=1. During this research the author was supported as a Twenty-First Century COE Kyoto Mathematics Fellow.     

The Density of Linear Symplectic Cocycles with Simple Lyapunov Spectrum in YIC（X, SL（2, R））

Let （X, G（X）, m） be a probability space with a-algebra G（X） and probability measure m. The set V in G is called P-admissible, provided that for any positive integer n and positive-measure set Vn∈ contained in V, there exists a Zn∈G such that Zn belong to Vn and 0 〈 m（Zn） 〈 1/n. Let T be an ergodic automorphism of （X, G） preserving m, and A belong to the space of linear measurable symplectic cocycles     

Homogeneous algebraic varieties defined by Jordan pairs

Every Jordan pair defines an algebraic varietyX containing as a dense open subset.X is projective (affine) if and only if is separable (radical). The Picard group ofX is generated by the irreducible factors of the generic norm of . If is separable then the automorphism group ofX is the projective group of .     

Harmonic currents of finite energy and laminations

We introduce a notion of energy for harmonic currents of bidegree (1, 1) on a complex K?hler manifold (M, ω). This allows us to define for positive harmonic currents. We then show that for a lamination with singularities of a compact set in without directed positive closed currents, there is a unique positive harmonic current which minimizes energy. If X is a compact laminated set in of class it carries a unique positive harmonic current T of mass 1. The current T can be obtained by an Ahlfors type construction starting with an arbitrary leaf of X. When X has a totally disconnected set of singularities, contained in a countable union of analytic sets, the above construction still gives positive harmonic currents. Received: February 2004 Revision: December 2004 Accepted: June 2005     

On Generic Well-posedness of Restricted Chebyshev Center Problems in Banach Spaces

Let B （resp. K, BC,KC） denote the set of all nonempty bounded （resp. compact, bounded convex, compact convex） closed subsets of the Banach space X, endowed with the Hausdorff metric, and let G be a nonempty relatively weakly compact closed subset of X. Let B° stand for the set of all F ∈B such that the problem （F, G） is well-posed. We proved that, if X is strictly convex and Kadec, the set KC ∩ B° is a dense Gδ-subset of KC ／ G. Furthermore, if X is a uniformly convex Banach space, we will prove more, namely that the set B ／B° （resp. K ／ B°, BC ／B°, KC ／ B°） is a-porous in B （resp. K,BC, KC）. Moreover, we prove that for most （in the sense of the Baire category） closed bounded subsets G of X, the set K ／ B° is dense and uncountable in K.     

Right distributive quasigroups on algebraic varieties

In this paper we develop a structure theory of algebraic right distributive quasigroups which correspond to closed and connected conjugacy classes generating algebraic Fischer groups (in the sense of [6]) such that the mappingx x ^–1 ax, fora , is an automorphism of (as variety). We also give examples of algebraic Fischer groups where this does not happen. It becomes clear that the class of algebraic right distributive quasigroups has nice properties concerning subquasigroups, normal subquasigroups and direct product.We give a complete classification of one- and two-dimensional as well as of minimal algebraic right distributive quasigroups.     

Affine configurations of 4 lines in \mathbb{R}^{\text{3}}

We prove that affine configurations of 4 lines in are topologically and combinatorially homeomorphic to affine configurations of 6 points in Received: 14 July 2004; revised: 18 February 2005