On singularities arising from the contraction of the minimal section a a ruled surface.
This is the text of a talk given at the XVII Convegno dellUnione Matematica Italiana held at Milano, September 8-13, 2003. I would like to thank Angelo Lopez and Ciro Ciliberto for the kind invitation to the conference. I survey some numerical conjectures and theorems concerning relations between the index, the pseudo-index and the Picard number of a Fano variety. The results I refer to are contained in the paper [3], wrote in collaboration with Bonavero, Debarre and Druel.
We discuss the problem of stable conjugacy of finite subgroups of Cremona groups. We compute the stable birational invariant H 1(G, Pic(X)) for cyclic groups of prime order.
The moduli space M of surfaces of general type with pg = q = 1, K2 = g = 3 (where g is the genus of the Albanese fibration) was constructed by Catanese and Ciliberto in [14]. In this paper we characterize the subvariety M2 ⊂ M corresponding to surfaces containing a genus 2 pencil, and moreover we show that there exists a non-empty, dense subset M0 ⊂ M which parametrizes isomorphism classes of surfaces with birational bicanonical map.
This paper classifies surfaces of general type with having an involution such that has non-negative Kodaira dimension and that the bicanonical map of factors through the double cover induced by It is shown that is regular and either: a) the Albanese fibration of is of genus 2 or b) has no genus 2 fibration and is birational to a surface. For case a) a list of possibilities and examples are given. An example for case b) with is also constructed.
Si caratterizzano alcune classi di superfici in relazione all’indice di autointersezione dell'aggiunto ad un divisore molto ampio.
Siano: una superficie algebrica proiettiva complessa non singolare, un divisore canonico ed un divisore molto ampio su . Questo lavoro ha per oggetto lo studio dell'indice di autointersezione . Si dimostra, innanzitutto, la disuguaglianza , nell'ipotesi che la superficie ottenuta immergendo mediante il sistema lineare completo non sia uno scroll. Questa disuguaglianza è connessa con alcuni risultati di Sommese e Van de Ven sulla generazione del fascio . La dimostrazione della (I)...