Abstract: | A. S. Tikhomirov’s conjecture about the smoothness of the variety of complete pairsX 23 of zero-dimensional subschemes of an irreducible projective algebraic surface is verified. In the caseS=P2, the topological Euler characteristic of this variety is computed. Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 67, No. 2, pp. 276–287, February, 2000. |