Equidistribution des sous-variétés de petite hauteur

International audienceIn this paper, the equidistribution theorem of Szpiro-Ullmo-Zhang about sequences of small points in an abelian variety is extended to the case of sequences of higher dimensional subvarieties. A quantitative version of this result is also given

On the canonical degrees of curves in varieties of general type

A widely believed conjecture predicts that curves of bounded geometric genus lying on a variety of general type form a bounded family. One may even ask whether the canonical degree of a curve $C$ in a variety of general type is bounded from above by some expression $a\chi(C)+b$, where $a$ and $b$ are positive constants, with the possible exceptions corresponding to curves lying in a strict closed subset (depending on $a$ and $b$). A theorem of Miyaoka proves this for smooth curves in minimal surfaces, with $a>3/2$. A conjecture of Vojta claims in essence that any constant $a>1$ is possible provided one restricts oneself to curves of bounded gonality. We show by explicit examples coming from the theory of Shimura varieties that in general, the constant $a$ has to be at least equal to the dimension of the ambient variety. We also prove the desired inequality in the case of compact Shimura varieties.Comment: 10 pages, to appear in Geometric and Functional Analysi

Hyperbolicity of varieties of log general type

These notes provide an overview of various notions of hyperbolicity for varieties of log general type from the viewpoint of both arithmetic and birational geometry. The main results are based on our paper entitled "Hyperbolicity and uniformity of varieties of log general type." They are expanded notes from a minicourse the authors gave as part of the Geometry and arithmetic of orbifolds workshop at UQ\'AM.Comment: Addressed some inaccuracies and typos pointed out by the referees and some readers. Slight change of title. To appear in CRM short courses (Arithmetic Geometry of Logarithmic Pairs and Hyperbolicity of Moduli Spaces: Hyperbolicity in Montr\'eal