Simply-connected algebraic surfaces of positive index.
We study the codimension two locus in consisting of principally polarized abelian varieties whose theta divisor has a singularity that is not an ordinary double point. We compute the class for every . For , this turns out to be the locus of Jacobians with a vanishing theta-null. For , via the Prym map we show that has two components, both unirational, which we describe completely. We then determine the slope of the effective cone of and show that the component of the Andreotti-Mayer...
We prove that any finite set of n-dimensional isolated algebraic singularities can be afforded on a simply connected projective variety.
The geometric small property (Borho-MacPherson [2]) of projective morphisms implies a description of their singularities in terms of intersection homology. In this paper we solve the smallness problem raised by Nakajima [37, 35] for certain resolutions of quiver varieties [37] (analogs of the Springer resolution): for Kirillov-Reshetikhin modules of simply-laced quantum affine algebras, we characterize explicitly the Drinfeld polynomials corresponding to the small resolutions. We use an elimination...
Let k be an algebraically closed field, char k = 0. Let C be an irreducible nonsingular curve such that rC = S ∩ F, r ∈ ℕ, where S and F are two surfaces and all the singularities of F are of the form , s ∈ ℕ. We prove that C can never pass through such kind of singularities of a surface, unless r = 3a, a ∈ ℕ. We study multiplicity-r structures on varieties r ∈ ℕ. Let Z be a reduced irreducible nonsingular (n-1)-dimensional variety such that rZ = X ∩ F, where X is a normal n-fold, F is a (N-1)-fold...