On the deformation rigidity of smooth projective symmetric varieties with Picard number one

Symmetric varieties are normal equivariant open embeddings of symmetric homogeneous spaces and they are interesting examples of spherical varieties. The principal goal of this article is to study the rigidity under Kähler deformations of smooth projective symmetric varieties with Picard number one.     

Classification and syzygies of smooth projective varieties with 2-regular structure sheaf

The geometric and algebraic properties of smooth projective varieties with 1-regular structure sheaf are well understood, and the complete classification of these varieties is a classical result. The aim of this paper is to study the next case: smooth projective varieties with 2-regular structure sheaf. First, we give a classification of such varieties using adjunction mappings. Next, under suitable conditions, we study the syzygies of section rings of those varieties to understand the structure of the Betti tables, and show a sharp bound for Castelnuovo–Mumford regularity.     

Algebraic prolongation and rigidity of Carnot groups

We discuss the known results on rigidity of Carnot groups using Tanaka’s prolongation theory. We also apply Tanaka’s theory to study rigidity of an extended class of H-type groups which we call J-type groups. In particular we obtain a rigidity criterion giving rise to a rigid class of J-type groups which includes the H-type groups, and thus extends the results of H.M. Reimann. We also construct a noncomplex J-type group which is nonrigid and does not satisfy the rank 1 condition over the reals.     

Algebraic prolongation and rigidity of Carnot groups

We discuss the known results on rigidity of Carnot groups using Tanaka’s prolongation theory. We also apply Tanaka’s theory to study rigidity of an extended class of H-type groups which we call J-type groups. In particular we obtain a rigidity criterion giving rise to a rigid class of J-type groups which includes the H-type groups, and thus extends the results of H.M. Reimann. We also construct a noncomplex J-type group which is nonrigid and does not satisfy the rank 1 condition over the reals.     

Homogeneous projective varieties with degenerate secants

The secant variety of a projective variety in , denoted by , is defined to be the closure of the union of lines in passing through at least two points of , and the secant deficiency of is defined by . We list the homogeneous projective varieties with under the assumption that arise from irreducible representations of complex simple algebraic groups. It turns out that there is no homogeneous, non-degenerate, projective variety with and , and the -variety is the only homogeneous projective variety with largest secant deficiency . This gives a negative answer to a problem posed by R. Lazarsfeld and A. Van de Ven if we restrict ourselves to homogeneous projective varieties.

     

Jacobians and differents of projective varieties

Let X be a reduced and irreducible projective variety of dimension d. Let π:X→Y be a separable noetherian normalization of X and ? the canonical morphism Ω^d _X/k→Ω^d _L/k. From our main result: $$J_X \varphi (\pi ^* \Omega ^d _{Y/k} ) = \theta _k (X/Y)\varphi (\Omega ^d _{X/k} )$$ we deduce relations among: complementary module C(X/Y), Kähler different θ_k(X/Y), Dedekind different θ_D(X/Y), jacobian ideal J_K and ω-jacobian ideal \(\tilde J_X\) .     

Complex projective towers and their cohomological rigidity up to dimension six

A complex projective tower, or simply a ?P-tower, is an iterated complex projective fibration starting from a point. In this paper we classify all six-dimensional ?P-towers up to diffeomorphism, and as a consequence we show that all such manifolds are cohomologically rigid, i.e., they are completely determined up to diffeomorphism by their cohomology rings.     

Simple connectedness of projective varieties

A Lefschetz type theorem is proven relating the algebraic fundamental group of a smooth projective variety to the algebraic fundamental group of a subvariety set theoretically defined by forms.

     

Local rigidity of quasi-regular varieties

For a G-variety X with an open orbit, we define its boundary ∂ X as the complement of the open orbit. The action sheaf S _X is the subsheaf of the tangent sheaf made of vector fields tangent to ∂ X. We prove, for a large family of smooth spherical varieties, the vanishing of the cohomology groups H ⁱ (X, S _X ) for i > 0, extending results of Bien and Brion (Compos. Math. 104:1–26, 1996). We apply these results to study the local rigidity of the smooth projective varieties with Picard number one classified in Pasquier (Math. Ann., in press).     

Remarks on osculating linear spaces to projective varieties

Let X P^N be an integral n-dimensional variety and m(X, P, i) (resp. m(X, i)), 1 i N - n + 1, the Hermite invariants of X measuring the osculating behaviour of X at P (resp. at its general point). Here we prove m(X, x) + m(X, y) m(X, x + y) and m(X, P, x) + m(X, y) m(X, P, x + y) for all integers x, y such that x + y N - n + 1, the case n = 1 being known (M. Homma, A. Garcia and E. Esteves).*Partially supported by MIUR and GNSAGA of INdAM (Italy).     

Structure of functional codes defined on non-degenerate Hermitian varieties

We study the functional codes of order h defined by G. Lachaud on a non-degenerate Hermitian variety, by exhibiting a result on divisibility for all the weights of such codes. In the case where the functional code is defined by evaluating quadratic functions on the non-degenerate Hermitian surface, we list the first five weights, describe the geometrical structure of the corresponding quadrics and give a positive answer to a conjecture formulated on this question by Edoukou (2009) [8]. The paper ends with two conjectures. The first is about the divisibility of the weights in the functional codes. The second is about the minimum distance and the distribution of the codewords of the first 2h+1 weights.     

Lines on projective varieties and applications

The first part of this note contains a review of basic properties of the variety of lines contained in an embedded projective variety and passing through a general point. In particular we provide a detailed proof that for varieties defined by quadratic equations the base locus of the projective second fundamental form at a general point coincides, as a scheme, with the variety of lines. The second part concerns the problem of extending embedded projective manifolds, using the geometry of the variety of lines. Some applications to the case of homogeneous manifolds are included.     

Almost complex rigidity of the complex projective plane

An isomorphism of symplectically tame smooth pseudocomplex structures on the complex projective plane which is a homeomorphism and differentiable of full rank at two points is smooth.

     

Joins of projective varieties and multisecant spaces

Let , , be integral varieties. For any integers 0$">, , and set and . Let be the set of all linear -spaces contained in a linear -space spanned by points of , points of , ..., points of . Here we study some cases where has the expected dimension. The case was recently considered by Chiantini and Coppens and we follow their ideas. The two main results of the paper consider cases where each is a surface, more particularly:

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