À propos d'un théorème de Mori-Nagata
We show that the natural generalization of a conjecture of Hain and Looijenga to the case of pointed curves holds for all and if and only if the tautological rings of the moduli spaces of curves with rational tails and of stable curves are Gorenstein.
A. Crachiola and L. Makar-Limanov [J. Algebra 284 (2005)] showed the following: if X is an affine curve which is not isomorphic to the affine line , then ML(X×Y) = k[X]⊗ ML(Y) for every affine variety Y, where k is an algebraically closed field. In this note we give a simple geometric proof of a more general fact that this property holds for every affine variety X whose set of regular points is not k-uniruled.
Recently, E.Feigin introduced a very interesting contraction of a semisimple Lie algebra (see arXiv:1007.0646 and arXiv:1101.1898). We prove that these non-reductive Lie algebras retain good invariant-theoretic properties of . For instance, the algebras of invariants of both adjoint and coadjoint representations of are free, and also the enveloping algebra of is a free module over its centre.