A chracterization of A-discriminantal hypersurfaces in terms of the logarithmic Gauss map.
We compute the essential dimension of the functors Forms and Hypersurf of equivalence classes of homogeneous polynomials in variables and hypersurfaces in , respectively, over any base field of characteristic . Here two polynomials (or hypersurfaces) over are considered equivalent if they are related by a linear change of coordinates with coefficients in . Our proof is based on a new Genericity Theorem for algebraic stacks, which is of independent interest. As another application of the...
In this paper we show that on a general hypersurface of degree r = 3,4,5,6 in P5 a rank 2 vector bundle ε splits if and only if h1ε(n) = h2ε(n) = 0 for all n ∈ Z. Similar results for r = 1,2 were obtained in [15], [16] and [2].
In this paper we give a method for calculating the rank of a general elliptic curve over the field of rational functions in two variables. We reduce this problem to calculating the cohomology of a singular hypersurface in a weighted projective -space. We then give a method for calculating the cohomology of a certain class of singular hypersurfaces, extending work of Dimca for the isolated singularity case.
For the general ruled cubic surface S (with a double line) in P3 = P3 sub k, k any algebraically closed field, we find necessary conditions for which curves on S can be the specialization of a flat family of curves on smooth cubics. In particular, no smooth curve of degree > 10 on S is such a specialization.
Grauert and Manin showed that a non-isotrivial family of compact complex hyperbolic curves has finitely many sections. We consider a generic moving enough family of high enough degree hypersurfaces in a complex projective space. We show the existence of a strict closed subset of its total space that contains the image of all its sections.