Special linear systems and syzygies
Let be a connected, reductive algebraic group over an algebraically closed field of zero or good and odd characteristic. We characterize spherical conjugacy classes in as those intersecting only Bruhat cells in corresponding to involutions in the Weyl group of .
Brion proved that the valuation cone of a complex spherical variety is a fundamental domain for a finite reflection group, called the little Weyl group. The principal goal of this paper is to generalize this theorem to fields of characteristic unequal to 2. We also prove a weaker version which holds in characteristic 2, as well. Our main tool is a generalization of Akhiezer’s classification of spherical varieties of rank 1.
We construct spherical homogeneous spaces X of semisimple simply connected groups with connected stabilizers such that the Hasse principle or weak approximation fail for X.
Using the theory of spherical varieties, we give a type independent very short proof of Wahl’s conjecture for cominuscule homogeneous varieties for all primes different from 2.
A monomial self-map on a complex toric variety is said to be -stable if the action induced on the -cohomology is compatible with iteration. We show that under suitable conditions on the eigenvalues of the matrix of exponents of , we can find a toric model with at worst quotient singularities where is -stable. If is replaced by an iterate one can find a -stable model as soon as the dynamical degrees of satisfy . On the other hand, we give examples of monomial maps , where this condition...
The rationality of a stably rational torus with a cyclic splitting field is proved.
Recently, T. Fukui and L. Paunescu introduced a weighted version of the -regularity condition and Kuo’s ratio test condition. In this approach, we consider the - regularity condition and -regularity related to a Newton filtration.
We prove that smooth subvarieties of codimension two in Grassmannians of lines of dimension at least six are rationally numerically subcanonical. We prove the same result for smooth quadrics of dimension at least six under some extra condition. The method is quite easy, and only uses Serre s construction, Porteous formula, and Hodge index theorem.