On the fundamental group of the complement of a divisor in a homogeneous space.
We show that the GVC (generalized vanishing conjecture) holds for the differential operator and all polynomials , where is any polynomial over the base field. The GVC arose from the study of the Jacobian conjecture.
We deal with a reducible projective surface with so-called Zappatic singularities, which are a generalization of normal crossings. First we compute the -genus of , i.e. the dimension of the vector space of global sections of the dualizing sheaf . Then we prove that, when is smoothable, i.e. when is the central fibre of a flat family parametrized by a disc, with smooth general fibre, then the -genus of the fibres of is constant.
We show that there is a large class of nonspecial effective divisors of relatively small degree on real algebraic curves having many real components i.e. on M-curves. We apply to 1. complete linear systems on M-curves containing divisors with entirely real support, and 2. morphisms of M-curves into P1.
Here we focus on the geometry of , the compactification of the universal Picard variety constructed by L. Caporaso. In particular, we show that the moduli space of spin curves constructed by M. Cornalba naturally injects into and we give generators and relations of the rational Picard group of , extending previous work by A. Kouvidakis.