Algebraic cycles, Chow varieties, and Lawson homology
Donaldson proved that if a polarized manifold has constant scalar curvature Kähler metrics in and its automorphism group is discrete, is asymptotically Chow stable. In this paper, we shall show an example which implies that the above result does not hold in the case where is not discrete.
We find two basis of the spaces of rational homology of the Hilbert scheme of points in an algebraic surface, by exhibiting two candidates having as cardinalities the known Betti numbers of this scheme and showing that both intersect in a matrix of nonzero determinant.
Let X ⊂ P6 be a smooth irreducible projective threefold, and d its degree. In this paper we prove that there exists a constant β such that for all X containing a smooth ruled surface as hyperplane section and not contained in a fourfold of degree less than or equal to 15, d ≤ β. Under some more restrictive hypothesis we prove an analogous result for threefolds containing a smooth ruled surface as hyperplane section and contained in a fourfold of degree less than or equal to 15.
We study the lowest dimensional open case of the question whether every arithmetically Cohen–Macaulay subscheme of is glicci, that is, whether every zero-scheme in is glicci. We show that a general set of points in admits no strictly descending Gorenstein liaison or biliaison. In order to prove this theorem, we establish a number of important results about arithmetically Gorenstein zero-schemes in .