Let C ⊆ Pn be an unramified nonspecial real space curve having many real branches and few ovals. We show that C is a rational normal curve if n is even, and that C is an M-curve having no ovals if n is odd.
We study various "generic" nefness and ampleness notions for holomorphic vector bundles on a projective manifold. We apply this in particular to the tangent bundle and investigate the relation to the geometry of the manifold.
A singularity is said to be weakly-exceptional if it has a unique purely log terminal blow-up. In dimension 2, V. Shokurov proved that weakly-exceptional quotient singularities are exactly those of types D n, E 6, E 7, E 8. This paper classifies the weakly-exceptional quotient singularities in dimensions 3 and 4.
* The research has been partially supported by Bulgarian Funding Organizations, sponsoring the Algebra Section of the Mathematics Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, a Contract between the Humboldt Univestit¨at and the University of Sofia, and Grant MM 412 / 94 from the Bulgarian Board of Education and TechnologyThe present survey introduces in some classical properties of the universal coverings of the projective algebraic manifolds. All the results are non-original. A forthcoming note is...