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.     

Some modular varieties of low dimension II

The paper extends results obtained by Frieder Hermann and Eberhard Freitag about a six-dimensional modular variety related to the orthogonal group of signature (2.6). The ring of modular forms of this variety turns out to be a weighted polynomial ring in 7 variables.     

Irreducibility of equisingular families of curves

In 1985 Joe Harris proved the long-standing claim of Severi that equisingular families of plane nodal curves are irreducible whenever they are nonempty. For families with more complicated singularities this is no longer true. Given a divisor on a smooth projective surface it thus makes sense to look for conditions which ensure that the family of irreducible curves in the linear system with precisely singular points of types is irreducible. Considering different surfaces, including general surfaces in and products of curves, we produce a sufficient condition of the type

where is some constant and some zero-dimensional scheme associated to the singularity type. Our results carry the same asymptotics as the best known results in this direction in the plane case, even though the coefficient is worse. For most of the surfaces considered these are the only known results in that direction.

     

Smoothness of equisingular families of curves

Francesco Severi (1921) showed that equisingular families of plane nodal curves are T-smooth, i.e. smooth of the expected dimension, whenever they are non-empty. For families with more complicated singularities this is no longer true. Given a divisor on a smooth projective surface it thus makes sense to look for conditions which ensure that the family of irreducible curves in the linear system with precisely singular points of types is T-smooth. Considering different surfaces including the projective plane, general surfaces in , products of curves and geometrically ruled surfaces, we produce a sufficient condition of the type

where is some invariant of the singularity type and is some constant. This generalises the results of Greuel, Lossen, and Shustin (2001) for the plane case, combining their methods and the method of Bogomolov instability. For many singularity types the -invariant leads to essentially better conditions than the invariants used by Greuel, Lossen, and Shustin (1997), and for most classes of geometrically ruled surfaces our results are the first known for T-smoothness at all.

     

Existence of curves with prescribed topological singularities

Throughout this paper we study the existence of irreducible curves on smooth projective surfaces with singular points of prescribed topological types . There are necessary conditions for the existence of the type for some fixed divisor on and suitable coefficients , and , and the main sufficient condition that we find is of the same type, saying it is asymptotically proper. Ten years ago general results of this quality were not known even for the case . An important ingredient for the proof is a vanishing theorem for invertible sheaves on the blown up of the form , deduced from the Kawamata-Vieweg Vanishing Theorem. Its proof covers the first part of the paper, while the middle part is devoted to the existence theorems. In the last part we investigate our conditions on ruled surfaces, products of elliptic curves, surfaces in , and K3-surfaces.

     

Algebraic geometry over the residue field of the infinite place

Nikolai Durov introduced the theory of generalized rings and schemes to study Arakelov geometry in an alternative algebraic framework, and introduced the residue field at the infinite place, 𝔽_∞. We show an elementary algebraic approach to modules and algebras over this object, define prime congruences, show that the polynomial ring of n variables is of Krull dimension n, and derive a prime decomposition theorem for these primes.     

Seshadri constants on Jacobian of curves

We compute the Seshadri constants on the Jacobian of hyperelliptic curves, as well as of curves with genus three and four. For higher genus curves we conclude that if the Seshadri constants of their Jacobian are less than 2, then the curves must be hyperelliptic.

     

Weighted blowups and mirror symmetry for toric surfaces

This paper explores homological mirror symmetry for weighted blowups of toric varietes. It will be shown that both the A-model and B-model categories have natural semi-orthogonal decompositions. An explicit equivalence of the right orthogonal categories will be shown for the case of toric surfaces.     

On the restriction of holomorphic forms

In this paper the author improved a proposition of Sommese on the restriction of holomorphic forms. By studying several examples, it turns out that this improvement is more or less optimal.     

Examples of Para-cocyclic Objects Induced by BD-Laws

In a recent paper (Böhm and Stefan, Commun Math Phys 282:239–286, 2008), we gave a general construction of a para-cocyclic structure on a cosimplex, associated to a so called admissible septuple—consisting of two categories, three functors and two natural transformations, subject to compatibility relations. The main examples of such admissible septuples were induced by algebra homomorphisms. In this note we provide more general examples coming from appropriate (‘locally braided’) morphisms of monads.     

Derived categories of sheaves on singular schemes with an application to reconstruction

We prove that the bounded derived category of coherent sheaves with proper support is equivalent to the category of locally-finite, cohomological functors on the perfect derived category of a quasi-projective scheme over a field. We introduce the notions of pseudo-adjoints and Rouquier functors and study them. As an application of these ideas and results, we extend the reconstruction result of Bondal and Orlov to Gorenstein projective varieties.     

Greenberg Approximation and the Geometry of Arc Spaces

We study the differential properties of generalized arc schemes and geometric versions of Kolchin's Irreducibility Theorem over arbitrary base fields. As an intermediate step, we prove an approximation result for arcs by algebraic curves.     

SOME RESULTS ON INFINITE DIMENSIONAL NOVIKOV ALGEBRAS

This paper gives some sufficient conditions for determining the simplicity of infinite dimensional Novikov algebras of characteristic 0, and also constructs a class of simple Novikov algebras by extending the base field. At last, the deformation theory of Novikov algebras is introduced.