Complex projective elliptic surfaces endowed with a numerically effective line bundle of arithmetic genus two are studied and partially classified. A key role is played by elliptic quasi-bundles, where some ideas developed by Serrano in order to study ample line bundles apply to this more general situation.
The fundamental combinatorial structure of a net in is its associated set of mutually orthogonal Latin squares. We define equivalence classes of sets of orthogonal Latin squares by label equivalences of the lines of the corresponding net in . Then we count these equivalence classes for small cases. Finally we prove that the realization spaces of these classes in are empty to show some non-existence results for 4-nets in .
The main purpose of this paper is twofold. We first analyze in detail the meaningful geometric aspect of the method introduced in [12], concerning families of irreducible, nodal curves on a smooth, projective threefold X. This analysis gives some geometric interpretations not investigated in [12] and highlights several interesting connections with families of other singular geometric objects related to X and to other varieties. Then we use this method to study analogous problems for families of...
V. Alexeev and M. Brion introduced, for a given a complex reductive group, a moduli scheme of affine spherical varieties with prescribed weight monoid. We provide new examples of this moduli scheme by proving that it is an affine space when the given group is of type and the prescribed weight monoid is that of a spherical module.
For certain tame abelian covers of arithmetic surfaces we obtain formulas, involving a quadratic form derived from intersection numbers, for the equivariant Euler characteristics of both the canonical sheaf and also its square root. These formulas allow us to carry out explicit calculations; in particular, we are able to exhibit examples where these two Euler characteristics and that of the structure sheaf are all different and non-trivial. Our results are obtained by using resolvent techniques...