By the results of the author and Chiantini in [3], on a general quintic threefold X⊂P 4 the minimum integer p for which there exists a positive dimensional family of irreducible rank p vector bundles on X without intermediate cohomology is at least three. In this paper we show that p≤4, by constructing series of positive dimensional families of rank 4 vector bundles on X without intermediate cohomology. The general member of such family is an indecomposable bundle from the extension class Ext 1...

In this paper all non-splitting rank-two vector bundles E without intermediate cohomology on a general quartic hypersurface X in P4 are classified. In particular, the existence of some curves on a general quartic hypersurface is proved.

The aim of this series of papers is to develop the theory of minimal models for real algebraic threefolds. The ultimate aim is to understand the topology of the set of real points of real algebraic threefolds. We pay special attention to 3–folds which are birational to projective space and, more generally, to 3–folds of Kodaira dimension minus infinity.present work contains the beginning steps of this program. First we classify 3–dimensional terminal singularities over any field of characteristic...

Let $W\to X$ be a real smooth projective 3-fold fibred by rational curves such that $W\left(ℝ\right)$ is orientable. J. Kollár proved that a connected component $N$ of $W\left(ℝ\right)$ is essentially either Seifert fibred or a connected sum of lens spaces. Answering three questions of Kollár, we give sharp estimates on the number and the multiplicities of the Seifert fibres (resp. the number and the torsions of the lens spaces) when $X$ is a geometrically rational surface. When $N$ is Seifert fibred over a base orbifold $F$, our result generalizes...