12 research outputs found
Algebraic varieties with automorphism groups of maximal rank
We confirm, to some extent, the belief that a projective variety X has the
largest number (relative to the dimension of X) of independent commuting
automorphisms of positive entropy only when X is birational to a complex torus
or a quotient of a torus. We also include an addendum to an early paper though
it is not used in the present paper.Comment: Mathematische Annalen (to appear
The Kodaira dimension of the moduli of K3 surfaces
The moduli space of polarised K3 surfaces of degree 2d is a quasi-projective
variety of dimension 19. For general d very little has been known about the
Kodaira dimension of these varieties. In this paper we present an almost
complete solution to this problem. Our main result says that this moduli space
is of general type for d>61 and for d=46,50,54,58,60.Comment: 47 page
Extending Torelli map to toroidal compactifications of Siegel space
It has been known since the 1970s that the Torelli map ,
associating to a smooth curve its jacobian, extends to a regular map from the
Deligne-Mumford compactification to the 2nd Voronoi
compactification .
We prove that the extended Torelli map to the perfect cone (1st Voronoi)
compactification is also regular, and moreover
and share a common Zariski open
neighborhood of the image of . We also show that the map to the
Igusa monoidal transform (central cone compactification) is NOT regular for
; this disproves a 1973 conjecture of Namikawa.Comment: To appear in Inventiones Mathematica
Rationality of the moduli spaces of plane curves of sufficiently large degree
We prove that the moduli space of plane curves of degree d is rational for
all sufficiently large d.Comment: 18 pages; 1 figure; Macaulay2 scripts used can be found at
http://www.uni-math.gwdg.de/bothmer/rationality/ or at the end of the latex
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7-Gons and genus three hyperelliptic curves
In this paper, we will give a general but completely elementary description for hyperelliptic curves of genus three whose Jacobian varieties have endomorphisms by the real cyclotomic field ℚ(ζ7 + ζ̄7). We study the algebraic correspondences on these curves which are lifts of algebraic correspondences on a conic in P2 associated with Poncelet 7-gons. These correspondences induce endomorphisms φ on the Jacobians which satisfy φ3+φ2-2φ-1=0. Moreover, we study Humbert\u27s modular equations which characterize the curves of genus three having these real multiplications. © 2012 Springer-Verlag