Let Fⁿ be a connected, smooth and closed n-dimensional manifold satisfying the following property: if $N^m$ is any smooth and closed m-dimensional manifold with m > n and $T:N^m\to N^m$ is a smooth involution whose fixed point set is Fⁿ, then m = 2n. We describe the equivariant cobordism classification of smooth actions $(M^m;\Phi )$ of the group $G=Z{₂}^k$ on closed smooth m-dimensional manifolds $M^m$ for which the fixed point set of the action is a submanifold Fⁿ with the above property. This generalizes a result of F....

Let ${𝒟}_{\lambda ,\mu }$ be the space of linear differential operators on weighted densities from ${ℱ}_{\lambda }$ to ${ℱ}_{\mu }$ as module over the orthosymplectic Lie superalgebra $\mathrm{𝔬𝔰𝔭}\left(3\right|2)$, where ${ℱ}_{\lambda }$, $ł\in ℂ$ is the space of tensor densities of degree $\lambda$ on the supercircle $S^{1|3}$. We prove the existence and uniqueness of projectively equivariant quantization map from the space of symbols to the space of differential operators. An explicite expression of this map is also given.

Let $k$ be an algebraically closed field of characteristic $p\>0$. We study obstructions to lifting to characteristic $0$ the faithful continuous action $\phi$ of a finite group $G$ on $k\left[\right[t\left]\right]$. To each such $\phi$ a theorem of Katz and Gabber associates an action of $G$ on a smooth projective curve $Y$ over $k$. We say that the KGB obstruction of $\phi$ vanishes if $G$ acts on a smooth projective curve $X$ in characteristic $0$ in such a way that $X/H$ and $Y/H$ have the same genus for all subgroups $H\subset G$. We determine for which $G$ the KGB...

Let $X$ be a complex Fano manifold of arbitrary dimension, and $D$ a prime divisor in $X$. We consider the image ${𝒩}_1(D,X)$ of ${𝒩}_1\left(D\right)$ in ${𝒩}_1\left(X\right)$ under the natural push-forward of $1$-cycles. We show that ${\rho }_X-{\rho }_D\le codim{𝒩}_1(D,X)\le 8$. Moreover if $codim{𝒩}_1(D,X)\ge 3$, then either $X\cong S\times T$ where $S$ is a Del Pezzo surface, or $codim{𝒩}_1(D,X)=3$ and $X$ has a fibration in Del Pezzo surfaces onto a Fano manifold $T$ such that ${\rho }_X-{\rho }_T=4$.

Let ${\overline{L}}_i\to X_i$ be a holomorphic line bundle over a compact complex manifold for $i=1,2$. Let $S_i$ denote the associated principal circle-bundle with respect to some hermitian inner product on ${\overline{L}}_i$. We construct complex structures on $S=S_1\times S_2$ which we refer to as scalar, diagonal, and linear types. While scalar type structures always exist, the more general diagonal but non-scalar type structures are constructed assuming that ${\overline{L}}_i$ are equivariant ${\left({ℂ}^{*}\right)}^{n_i}$-bundles satisfying some additional conditions....

Let $Y$ be an $(m+1)$-dimensional irreducible smooth complex projective variety embedded in a projective space. Let $Z$ be a closed subscheme of $Y$, and $\delta$ be a positive integer such that ${ℐ}_{Z,Y}\left(\delta \right)$ is generated by global sections. Fix an integer $d\ge \delta +1$, and assume the general divisor $X\in |H^0(Y,{ℐ}_{Z,Y}\left(d\right))|$ is smooth. Denote by $H^m{(X;\mathbb{Q})}_{\perp Z}^{\mathrm{van}}$ the quotient of $H^m(X;\mathbb{Q})$ by the cohomology of $Y$ and also by the cycle classes of the irreducible components of dimension $m$ of $Z$. In the present paper we prove that the monodromy representation on $H^m{(X;\mathbb{Q})}_{\perp Z}^{\mathrm{van}}$ for the family...

Let $G$ be a unitary group defined over a non-Archimedean local field of odd residue characteristic and let $H$ be the centralizer of a semisimple rational Lie algebra element of $G.$ We prove that the Bruhat-Tits building ${𝔅}^1\left(H\right)$ of $H$ can be affinely and $G$-equivariantly embedded in the Bruhat-Tits building ${𝔅}^1\left(G\right)$ of $G$ so that the Moy-Prasad filtrations are preserved. The latter property forces uniqueness in the following way. Let $j$ and $j^{\prime }$ be maps from ${𝔅}^1\left(H\right)$ to ${𝔅}^1\left(G\right)$ which preserve the Moy–Prasad filtrations....

Given any compact manifold $M$, we construct a non-empty open subset $𝒪$ of the space ${\mathrm{Diff}}^1\left(M\right)$ of $C^1$-diffeomorphisms and a dense subset $𝒟\subset 𝒪$ such that the centralizer of every diffeomorphism in $𝒟$ is uncountable, hence non-trivial.

Let ${ℱ}_h^i(k,n)$ be the $i$-th ordered configuration space of all distinct points $H_1,...,H_h$ in the Grassmannian $Gr(k,n)$ of $k$-dimensional subspaces of ${ℂ}^n$, whose sum is a subspace of dimension $i$. We prove that ${ℱ}_h^i(k,n)$ is (when non empty) a complex submanifold of $Gr{(k,n)}^h$ of dimension $i(n-i)+hk(i-k)$ and its fundamental group is trivial if $i=min(n,hk)$, $hk\ne n$ and $n\>2$ and equal to the braid group of the sphere $ℂ$ $P^1$ if $n=2$. Eventually we compute the fundamental group in the special case of hyperplane arrangements, i.e. $k=n-1$.

Let $M$ be an $m$-dimensional manifold and $A={𝔻}_k^r/I=ℝ\oplus N_A$ a Weil algebra of height $r$. We prove that any $A$-covelocity $T_x^{A}f\in T_x^{A*}M$, $x\in M$ is determined by its values over arbitrary $max\{\mathrm{width}A,m\}$ regular and under the first jet projection linearly independent elements of $T_x^{A}M$. Further, we prove the rigidity of the so-called universally reparametrizable Weil algebras. Applying essentially those partial results we give the proof of the general rigidity result $T^{A*}M\simeq T^{r*}M$ without coordinate computations, which improves and generalizes the partial...

Let $V$ be a complex nonsingular projective 3-fold of general type. We prove $P_{12}\left(V\right):=dim{H}^0(V,12K_V)\>0$ and $P_{m_0}\left(V\right)\>1$ for some positive integer $m_0\le 24$. A direct consequence is the birationality of the pluricanonical map ${\varphi }_m$ for all $m\ge 126$. Besides, the canonical volume $\text{Vol}\left(V\right)$ has a universal lower bound $\nu \left(3\right)\ge \frac{1}{63·{126}^2}$.

Let $X$ be a smooth projective curve of genus $g\ge 2$ defined over an algebraically closed field $k$ of characteristic $p\>0$. Given a semistable vector bundle $E$ over $X$, we show that its direct image $F_{*}E$ under the Frobenius map $F$ of $X$ is again semistable. We deduce a numerical characterization of the stable rank-$p$ vector bundles $F_{*}L$, where $L$ is a line bundle over $X$.

Let $X$ be a uniruled projective manifold and let $x$ be a general point. The main result of [2] says that if the $(-K_X)$-degrees (i.e., the degrees with respect to the anti-canonical bundle of $X$) of all rational curves through $x$ are at least $dimX+1$, then $X$ is a projective space. In this paper, we study the structure of $X$ when the $(-K_X)$-degrees of all rational curves through $x$ are at least $dimX$. Our study uses the projective variety ${𝒞}_x\subset \mathbb{P}{T}_x\left(X\right)$, called the VMRT at $x$, defined as the union of tangent directions to the...

We describe all ${ℱ}^2{ℳ}_{m_1,m_2,n_1,n_2}$-natural operators $D:Q_{proj-proj}^{\tau }⇝Q{T}^{*}$ transforming projectable-projectable classical torsion-free linear connections $\nabla$ on fibred-fibred manifolds $Y$ into classical linear connections $D\left(\nabla \right)$ on cotangent bundles $T^{*}Y$ of $Y$. We show that this problem can be reduced to finding ${ℱ}^2{ℳ}_{m_1,m_2,n_1,n_2}$-natural operators $D:Q_{proj-proj}^{\tau }⇝(T^{*},{\otimes }^p{T}^{*}\otimes {\otimes }^{q}T)$ for $p=2$, $q=1$ and $p=3$, $q=0$.

For $n=2m\ge 4$, let $\Omega \in {ℝ}^n$ be a bounded smooth domain and $𝒩\subset {ℝ}^L$ a compact smooth Riemannian manifold without boundary. Suppose that $\left\{u_k\right\}\in W^{m,2}(\Omega ,𝒩)$ is a sequence of weak solutions in the critical dimension to the perturbed $m$-polyharmonic maps $$\frac{\mathrm{d}}{\mathrm{d}t}{|}_{t=0}{E}_m\left(\Pi (u+t\xi )\right)=0$$ with ${\Phi }_k\to 0$ in ${\left(W^{m,2}(\Omega ,𝒩)\right)}^{*}$ and $u_k\rightharpoonup u$ weakly in $W^{m,2}(\Omega ,𝒩)$. Then $u$ is an $m$-polyharmonic map. In particular, the space of $m$-polyharmonic maps is sequentially compact for the weak-$W^{m,2}$ topology.