On the number of singular points of plane curves

This is an extended, renovated and updated report on a joint work which the second named author presented at the Conference on Algebraic Geometry held at Saitama University, 15-17 of March, 1995. The main result is an inequality for the numerical type of singularities of a plane curve, which involves the degree of the curve, the multiplicities and the Milnor numbers of its singular points. It is a corollary of the logarithmic Bogomolov-Miyaoka-Yau's type inequality due to Miyaoka. It was first proven by F. Sakai at 1990 and rediscovered by the authors independently in the particular case of an irreducible cuspidal curve at 1992. Our proof is based on the localization, the local Zariski--Fujita decomposition and uses a graph discriminant calculus. The key point is a local analog of the BMY-inequality for a plane curve germ. As a corollary, a boundedness criterium for a family of plane curves has been obtained. Another application of our methods is the following fact: a rigid rational cuspidal plane curve cannot have more than 9 cusps.Comment: LaTeX, 24 pages with 3 figures, author-supplied DVI file available at http://www.math.duke.edu/preprints/95-00.dv

New examples of cylindrical Fano fourfolds

International audienceWe produce new families of smooth Fano fourfolds with Picard rank 1, which contain cylinders, i.e., Zariski open subsets of form Z × A 1 , where Z is a quasiprojective variety. The affine cones over such a fourfold admit effective G a-actions. Similar constructions of cylindrical Fano threefolds and fourfolds were done previously in [KPZ11, KPZ14, PZ15]

Genera of curves on a very general surface in P3P^3

In this paper we consider the question of determining the geometric genera of irreducible curves lying on a very general surface $S$ of degree $d$ at least 5 in $\mathbb{P}^3$ (the cases $d \leqslant 4$ are well known). We introduce the set $Gaps(d)$ of all non-negative integers which are not realized as geometric genera of irreducible curves on $S$. We prove that $Gaps(d)$ is finite and, in particular, that $Gaps(5)= \{0,1,2\}$. The set $Gaps(d)$ is the union of finitely many disjoint and separated integer intervals. The first of them, according to a theorem of Xu, is $Gaps_0(d):=[0, \frac{d(d-3)}{2} - 3]$. We show that the next one is $Gaps_1(d):= [\frac{d^2-3d+4}{2}, d^2-2d-9]$ for all $d \geqslant 6$.Comment: 16 page

Plane curves with a big fundamental group of the complement

Let C \s \pr^2 be an irreducible plane curve whose dual C^* \s \pr^{2*} is an immersed curve which is neither a conic nor a nodal cubic. The main result states that the Poincar\'e group \pi_1(\pr^2 \se C) contains a free group with two generators. If the geometric genus $g$ of $C$ is at least 2, then a subgroup of $G$ can be mapped epimorphically onto the fundamental group of the normalization of $C$, and the result follows. To handle the cases $g=0,1$, we construct universal families of immersed plane curves and their Picard bundles. This allows us to reduce the consideration to the case of Pl\"ucker curves. Such a curve $C$ can be regarded as a plane section of the corresponding discriminant hypersurface (cf. [Zar, DoLib]). Applying Zariski--Lefschetz type arguments we deduce the result from `the bigness' of the $d$-th braid group $B_{d,g}$ of the Riemann surface of $C$.Comment: 23 pages LaTeX. A revised version. The unnecessary restriction $d \ge 2g - 1$ of the previous version has been removed, and the main result has taken its final for