On extensions of number fields obtained by specializing branched coverings.
The classical Segre theory gives a necessary and sufficient condition for a plane curve to be a branch curve of a (generic) projection of a smooth surface in . We generalize this result for smooth surfaces in a projective space of any dimension in the following way: given two plane curves, and , we give a necessary and sufficient condition for to be the branch curve of a surface in and to be the image of the double curve of a -model of . In the classical Segre theory, a plane curve...
We study the geometrical properties of a unit vector field on a Riemannian 2-manifold, considering the field as a local imbedding of the manifold into its tangent sphere bundle with the Sasaki metric. For the case of constant curvature , we give a description of the totally geodesic unit vector fields for and and prove a non-existence result for . We also found a family of vector fields on the hyperbolic 2-plane of curvature which generate foliations on with leaves of constant intrinsic...
In certain cases the invertibility of a polynomial map F = (P,Q): ℂ²→ ℂ² can be characterized by the irreducibility and the rationality of the curves aP+bQ = 0, (a:b) ∈ ℙ¹.
Je présenterai des résultats de T. Ekedahl et H. Esnault sur les variétés projectives lisses sur un corps de caractéristique strictement positive, disons , dont deux points peuvent être liés par une chaîne de courbes rationnelles, par exemple faiblement unirationnelles, ou de Fano. Notamment : 1) sur un corps fini, de telles variétés ont un point rationnel, résultat qui généralise le théorème de Chevalley-Warning ; 2) sur un corps algébriquement clos, de telles variétés ont un groupe fondamental...