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Hyperelliptic Jacobians and isogenies
Motivated by results of Mestre and Voisin, in this note we mainly consider
abelian varieties isogenous to hyperelliptic Jacobians
In the first part we prove that a very general hyperelliptic Jacobian of
genus is not isogenous to a non-hyperelliptic Jacobian. As a
consequence we obtain that the Intermediate Jacobian of a very general cubic
threefold is not isogenous to a Jacobian. Another corollary tells that the
Jacobian of a very general -gonal curve of genus is not isogenous
to a different Jacobian.
In the second part we consider a closed subvariety of the moduli space of principally polarized varieties of
dimension . We show that if a very general element of is
dominated by a hyperelliptic Jacobian, then . In
particular, if the general element in is simple, its Kummer
variety does not contain rational curves. Finally we show that a closed
subvariety of dimension such that the
Jacobian of a very general element of is dominated by a
hyperelliptic Jacobian is contained either in the hyperelliptic or in the
trigonal locus.Comment: New version. Accepted in Adavances in Mathematic
Non-existence of an invariant measure for a homogeneous ellipsoid rolling on the plane
It is known that the reduced equations for an axially symmetric homogeneous
ellipsoid that rolls without slipping on the plane possess a smooth invariant
measure. We show that such an invariant measure does not exist in the case when
all of the semi-axes of the ellipsoid have different length.Comment: v2: Minor changes after journal review. This text uses the theory
developed in arXiv:1304.1788 for the specific example of a homogeneous
ellipsoid rolling on the plan
Walking down the borderline: hybridity and the modulation of the self in three canonical chicano novels
This paper presents an analysis of three Chicano novels considered canonical, in which the concept of “hybridity” is discussed in relation with the individual: Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me Última, Tomás Rivera’s …Y No Se Lo Tragó La Tierra, and Rolando Hinojosa’s Los Amigos de Becky. The paper proposes an additional application of “hybridity”, key concept of Cultural and Postcolonial Studies, in the cultural context of the Chicano identity. The fi nal aim is to prove, by means of the texts, the interaction between the individual and his/her context via their “hybridity” as a resulting phenomenon of a cultural multiplicity. Este trabajo presenta un análisis de tres novelas de autores chicanos considerados canónicos, en el que se discute el concepto de ‘hibridación’ y su interacción con el individuo: Bless Me Última, de Rudolfo Anaya, …Y No Se Lo Tragó La Tierra, de Tomás Rivera y Los Amigos de Becky, de Rolando Hinojosa. Se propone una aplicación adicional de “hibridación”, concepto clave de los Estudios Culturales y Postcoloniales, en el contexto cultural de la identidad chicana. El objetivo es demostrar la interacción entre el individuo y su contexto a través de la “hibridación” como fenómeno de multiplicidad cultural
On the Xiao conjecture for plane curves
Let be a non-trivial fibration from a complex
projective smooth surface to a smooth curve of genus . Let the
Clifford index of the generic fibre of . In [arXiv:1401.7502v4] it is
proved that the relative irregularity of , is less than
or equal to . In particular this proves the (modified) Xiao's
conjecture: for fibrations of general Clifford index. In this
short note we assume that the generic fiber of is a plane curve of degree
and we prove that . In particular we obtain the
conjecture for families of quintic plane curves. This theorem is implied for
the following result on infinitesimal deformations: let a smooth plane
curve of degree and let be an infinitesimal deformation of
preserving the planarity of the curve. Then the rank of the cup-product map
is at least . We also
show that this bound is sharp.Comment: 8 pages. Some typos have been corrected. To appear in "Geometriae
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