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Let be a semisimple linear algebraic group of inner type over a field , and let be a projective homogeneous -variety such that splits over the function field of . We introduce the -invariant of which characterizes the motivic behavior of , and generalizes the -invariant defined by A. Vishik in the context of quadratic forms. We use this -invariant to provide motivic decompositions of all generically split projective homogeneous -varieties, e.g. Severi-Brauer varieties, Pfister quadrics,...
Inspired by several works on jet schemes and motivic integration, we consider an extension to singular varieties of the classical definition of discrepancy for morphisms of smooth varieties. The resulting invariant, which we call , is closely related to the jet schemes and the Nash blow-up of the variety. This notion leads to a framework in which adjunction and inversion of adjunction hold in full generality, and several consequences are drawn from these properties. The main result of the paper...
We propose a solution to the hyperelliptic Schottky problem, based on the use of Jacobian Nullwerte and symmetric models for hyperelliptic curves. Both ingredients are interesting on its own, since the first provide period matrices which can be geometrically described, and the second have remarkable arithmetic properties.
We give a complete answer to the question of which polynomials occur as the characteristic polynomials of Frobenius for genus- curves over finite fields.
We introduce a notion of Jacobi-Bernoulli cohomology associated to a semi-simplicial Lie algebra (SELA). For an algebraic scheme X over ℂ, we construct a tangent SELA J X and show that the Jacobi-Bernoulli cohomology of J X is related to infinitesimal deformations of X.
For , we determine the irreducible components of the th Jet Scheme of a complex branch and we give formulas for their number and for their codimensions, in terms of and the generators of the semigroup of . This structure of the Jet Schemes determines and is determined by the topological type of .