Graded Betti numbers of some embedded rational n-folds.
Let be a desingularization of a normal surface . The group Pic is provided with an order relation , defined by . for any effective exceptional divisor . Comparing to the usual order relation we define the ceiling of which is an exceptional divisor. This notion allows us to improve the usual vanishing theorem and we deduce from it a numerical criterion for rationality and a genus formula for a curve on a normal surface; the difficulty lies in the case of a Weil divisor which is not a Cartier...
Let G be one of the groups SLn(ℂ), Sp2n (ℂ), SOm(ℂ), Om(ℂ), or G 2. For a generically free G-representation V, we say that N is a level of stable rationality for V/G if V/G × ℙN is rational. In this paper we improve known bounds for the levels of stable rationality for the quotients V/G. In particular, their growth as functions of the rank of the group is linear for G being one of the classical groups.