An open problem in complex analytic geometry arising in harmonic analysis

In this paper, an open problem in the multidimensional complex analysis is pesented that arises in the investigation of the regularity properties of Fourier integral operators and in the regularity theory for hyperbolic partial differential equations. The problem is discussed in a self-contained elementary way and some results towards its resolution are presented. A conjecture concerning the structure of appearing affine fibrations is formulated.Comment: 8 page

Lefschetz fibrations, complex structures and Seifert fibrations on S^1 X M^3

We consider product 4--manifolds S^1 X M, where M is a closed, connected and oriented 3-manifold. We prove that if S^1 X M admits a complex structure or a Lefschetz or Seifert fibration, then the following statement is true: S^1 X M admits a symplectic structure if and only if M fibers over S^1, under the additional assumption that M has no fake 3-cells. We also discuss the relationship between the geometry of M and complex structures and Seifert fibrations on S^1 X M.Comment: Published by Algebraic and Geometric Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/agt/AGTVol1/agt-1-24.abs.htm

Fibrations in complete intersections of quadrics, Clifford algebras, derived categories, and rationality problems

Let X -> Y be a fibration whose fibers are complete intersections of two quadrics. We develop new categorical and algebraic tools---a theory of relative homological projective duality and the Morita invariance of the even Clifford algebra under quadric reduction by hyperbolic splitting---to study semiorthogonal decompositions of the bounded derived category of X. Together with new results in the theory of quadratic forms, we apply these tools in the case where X -> Y has relative dimension 1, 2, or 3, in which case the fibers are curves of genus 1, Del Pezzo surfaces of degree 4, or Fano threefolds, respectively. In the latter two cases, if Y is the projective line over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero, we relate rationality questions to categorical representability of X.Comment: 43 pages, changes made and some material added and corrected in sections 1, 4, and 5; this is the final version accepted for publication at Journal de Math\'ematiques Pures et Appliqu\'ee