125 research outputs found
On Fano manifolds of Picard number one
K{\"u}chle classified the Fano fourfolds that can be obtained as zero loci of
global sections of homogeneous vector bundles on Grassmannians. Surprisingly,
his classification exhibits two families of fourfolds with the same discrete
invariants. Kuznetsov asked whether these two types of fourfolds are
deformation equivalent. We show that the answer is positive in a very strong
sense, since the two families are in fact the same! This phenomenon happens in
higher dimension as well
Configurations of lines and models of Lie algebras
The automorphism groups of the 27 lines on the smooth cubic surface or the 28
bitangents to the general quartic plane curve are well-known to be closely
related to the Weyl groups of and . We show how classical
subconfigurations of lines, such as double-sixes, triple systems or Steiner
sets, are easily constructed from certain models of the exceptional Lie
algebras. For and we are lead to
beautiful models graded over the octonions, which display these algebras as
plane projective geometries of subalgebras. We also interpret the group of the
bitangents as a group of transformations of the triangles in the Fano plane,
and show how this allows to realize the isomorphism in terms of harmonic cubes.Comment: 31 page
Vanishing theorems for ample vector bundles
We prove a general vanishing theorem for the cohomology of products of
symmetric and skew-symmetric powers of an ample vector bundle on a smooth
complex projective variety. Special cases include an extension of classical
theorems of Griffiths and Le Potier to the whole Dolbeault cohomology, and an
answer to a problem raised by Demailly. An application to degeneracy loci is
given.Comment: 12 pages, LaTeX2
On linear spaces of skew-symmetric matrices of constant rank
We describe the space of projective planes of complex skew-symmetric matrices
of order six and constant rank four. We prove that it has four connected
components, all of dimension 26 and homogeneous under the action of PGL_6.Comment: 12 page
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