Éclatements quasi homogènes
We prove irreducibility of the scheme of morphisms, of degree large enough, from a smooth elliptic curve to spinor varieties. We give an explicit bound on the degree.
Principally polarized abelian surfaces are the Jacobians of smooth genus 2 curves or of stable genus 2 curves of special type. In [S] we studied equations describing Kummer surfaces in the case of an irreducible principal polarization on the abelian surface. The aim of this note is to give a treatment of the second case. We describe intermediate Kummer surfaces coming from abelian surfaces carrying a product principal polarization. In Proposition 12 we give explicit equations of these surfaces in...
De Concini and Procesi have defined the wonderful compactification of a symmetric space where is a complex semisimple adjoint group and the subgroup of fixed points of by an involution . It is a closed subvariety of a Grassmannian of the Lie algebra of . In this paper we prove that, when the rank of is equal to the rank of , the variety is defined by linear equations. The set of equations expresses the fact that the invariant alternate trilinear form on vanishes on the -eigenspace...