We compute the number of irreducible rational curves of given degree with 1 tacnode in or 1 node in meeting an appropriate generic collection of points and lines. As a byproduct, we also compute the number of rational plane curves of degree passing through given points and tangent to a given line. The method is ‘classical’, free of Quantum Cohomology.
Principally polarized abelian surfaces are the Jacobians of smooth genus 2 curves or of stable genus 2 curves of special type. In [S] we studied equations describing Kummer surfaces in the case of an irreducible principal polarization on the abelian surface. The aim of this note is to give a treatment of the second case. We describe intermediate Kummer surfaces coming from abelian surfaces carrying a product principal polarization. In Proposition 12 we give explicit equations of these surfaces in...
We present a survey of results on word equations in simple groups, as well as their analogues and generalizations, which were obtained over the past decade using various methods: group-theoretic and coming from algebraic and arithmetic geometry, number theory, dynamical systems and computer algebra. Our focus is on interrelations of these machineries which led to numerous spectacular achievements, including solutions of several long-standing problems.
We compute, in a unified way, the equations of all hyperelliptic modular curves. The main tool is provided by a class of modular functions introduced by Newman in 1957. The method uses the action of the hyperelliptic involution on the cusps.
De Concini and Procesi have defined the wonderful compactification of a symmetric space where is a complex semisimple adjoint group and the subgroup of fixed points of by an involution . It is a closed subvariety of a Grassmannian of the Lie algebra of . In this paper we prove that, when the rank of is equal to the rank of , the variety is defined by linear equations. The set of equations expresses the fact that the invariant alternate trilinear form on vanishes on the -eigenspace...
We shortly introduce non-archimedean valued fields and discuss the difficulties in the corresponding theory of analytic functions. We motivate the need of -adic cohomology with the Weil Conjectures. We review the two most popular approaches to -adic analytic varieties, namely rigid and Berkovich analytic geometries. We discuss the action of Frobenius in rigid cohomology as similar to the classical action of covering transformations. When rigid cohomology is parametrized by twisting characters,...
Let be an affine conical factorial variety over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. We consider equidimensional and stable algebraic actions of an algebraic torus on compatible with the conical structure. We show that such actions are cofree and the nullcones of associated with them are complete intersections.