For a smooth complex projective variety, the rank $\rho$ of the Néron-Severi group is bounded by the Hodge number $h^{1,1}$. Varieties with $\rho =h^{1,1}$ have interesting properties, but are rather sparse, particularly in dimension $2$. We discuss in this note a number of examples, in particular those constructed from curves with special Jacobians.

Si illustrano alcune relazioni tra le varietà proiettive complesse con duale degenere, le varietà la cui topologia si riflette in quella della sezione iperpiana in misura maggiore dell'ordinario e le varietà fibrate in spazi lineari su di una curva.

Let $X$ denote either ${\mathrm{ℂ\mathbb{P}}}^m$ or ${ℂ}^m$. We study certain analytic properties of the space ${ℰ}^n(X,gp)$ of ordered geometrically generic $n$-point configurations in $X$. This space consists of all $q=(q_1,\cdots ,q_n)\in X^n$ such that no $m+1$ of the points $q_1,\cdots ,q_n$ belong to a hyperplane in $X$. In particular, we show that for a big enough $n$ any holomorphic map $f:{ℰ}^n({\mathrm{ℂ\mathbb{P}}}^m,gp)\to {ℰ}^n({\mathrm{ℂ\mathbb{P}}}^m,gp)$ commuting with the natural action of the symmetric group $𝐒\left(n\right)$ in ${ℰ}^n({\mathrm{ℂ\mathbb{P}}}^m,gp)$ is of the form $f\left(q\right)=\tau \left(q\right)q=(\tau \left(q\right)q_1,\cdots ,\tau \left(q\right)q_n)$, $q\in {ℰ}^n({\mathrm{ℂ\mathbb{P}}}^m,gp)$, where $\tau :{ℰ}^n({\mathrm{ℂ\mathbb{P}}}^m,gp)\to \mathrm{𝐏𝐒𝐋}(m+1,ℂ)$ is an $𝐒\left(n\right)$-invariant holomorphic map. A similar result holds true for mappings of the configuration space ${ℰ}^n({ℂ}^m,gp)$.

Let $(X,0)$ be a reduced, equidimensional germ of an analytic singularity with reduced tangent cone $(C_{X,0},0)$. We prove that the absence of exceptional cones is a necessary and sufficient condition for the smooth part ${𝔛}^0$ of the specialization to the tangent cone $\varphi :𝔛\to ℂ$ to satisfy Whitney’s conditions along the parameter axis $Y$. This result is a first step in generalizing to higher dimensions Lê and Teissier’s result for hypersurfaces of ${ℂ}^3$ which establishes the Whitney equisingularity of $X$ and its tangent cone under...