On congruences of lines in the projective space (Chapter 6 written in collaboration with M. Pedreira)
Given a covering family of effective 1-cycles on a complex projective variety , we find conditions allowing one to construct a geometric quotient , with regular on the whole of , such that every fiber of is an equivalence class for the equivalence relation naturally defined by . Among other results, we show that on a normal and -factorial projective variety with canonical singularities and , every covering and quasi-unsplit family of rational curves generates a geometric extremal...
To any finite covering of degree between smooth complex projective manifolds, one associates a vector bundle of rank on whose total space contains . It is known that is ample when is a projective space ([Lazarsfeld 1980]), a Grassmannian ([Manivel 1997]), or a Lagrangian Grassmannian ([Kim Maniel 1999]). We show an analogous result when is a simple abelian variety and does not factor through any nontrivial isogeny . This result is obtained by showing that is -regular in the...