On Fano 3-Folds.
On Fano 4-folds of index 1 and homogeneous vector bundles over Grassmannians.
On Fano Manifolds of large index.
On geometry of binary symmetric models of phylogenetic trees
We investigate projective varieties which are binary symmetric models of trivalent phylogenetic trees. We prove that they have Gorenstein terminal singularities and are Fano varieties of index 4 and dimension equal to the number of edges of the tree in question. Moreover any two such varieties which are of the same dimension are deformation equivalent, that is, they are in the same connected component of the Hilbert scheme of the projective space. As an application we provide a simple formula for...
On some numerical properties of Fano varieties
This is the text of a talk given at the XVII Convegno dellUnione Matematica Italiana held at Milano, September 8-13, 2003. I would like to thank Angelo Lopez and Ciro Ciliberto for the kind invitation to the conference. I survey some numerical conjectures and theorems concerning relations between the index, the pseudo-index and the Picard number of a Fano variety. The results I refer to are contained in the paper [3], wrote in collaboration with Bonavero, Debarre and Druel.
On some special Fano manifolds.
On the discriminant locus of an ample and spanned line bundle.
On the Picard number of divisors in Fano manifolds
Let be a complex Fano manifold of arbitrary dimension, and a prime divisor in . We consider the image of in under the natural push-forward of -cycles. We show that . Moreover if , then either where is a Del Pezzo surface, or and has a fibration in Del Pezzo surfaces onto a Fano manifold such that .
On the second exterior power of tangent bundles of threefolds
On the stability of the tangent bundle of Fano manifolds.
Periodic integrals and tautological systems
We study period integrals of CY hypersurfaces in a partial flag variety. We construct a regular holonomic system of differential equations which govern the period integrals. By means of representation theory, a set of generators of the system can be described explicitly. The results are also generalized to CY complete intersections. The construction of these new systems of differential equations has lead us to the notion of a tautological system.
Points rationnels et groupes fondamentaux : applications de la cohomologie -adique
Je présenterai des résultats de T. Ekedahl et H. Esnault sur les variétés projectives lisses sur un corps de caractéristique strictement positive, disons , dont deux points peuvent être liés par une chaîne de courbes rationnelles, par exemple faiblement unirationnelles, ou de Fano. Notamment : 1) sur un corps fini, de telles variétés ont un point rationnel, résultat qui généralise le théorème de Chevalley-Warning ; 2) sur un corps algébriquement clos, de telles variétés ont un groupe fondamental...
Projective degenerations of K3 surfaces, Gaussian maps and Fano threefolds.
Quartic del Pezzo surfaces over function fields of curves
We classify quartic del Pezzo surface fibrations over the projective line via numerical invariants, giving explicit examples for small values of the invariants. For generic such fibrations, we describe explicitly the geometry of spaces of sections to the fibration, and mappings to the intermediate Jacobian of the total space. We exhibit examples where these are birational, which has applications to arithmetic questions, especially over finite fields.
Quasi-Gorenstein Fano 3-folds with isolated non-rational loci
Quasi-lines and their degenerations
In this paper we study the structure of manifolds that contain a quasi-line and give some evidence towards the fact that the irreducible components of degenerations of the quasi-line should determine the Mori cone. We show that the minimality with respect to a quasi-line yields strong restrictions on fibre space structures of the manifold.
Raggi estremali di varietà proiettive lisce
Rational curves on hypersurfaces
Rational points of bounded height on Fano varieties.
Semi-continuity of complex singularity exponents and Kähler–Einstein metrics on Fano orbifolds