Search results for "Algebraic Geometry"

A Dido problem for domains in ?2 with a given inradius

1990

We find which are the simply connected domains in ℝ2 satisfying the Dido condition for a straight shoreline, with a given area A and a fixed inradius ϱ, which minimize the length of the free boundary. There are three different cases according to the values of A and ϱ.

Volumes of certain small geodesic balls and almost-Hermitian geometry

1984

Let D be the characteristic connection of an almost-Hermitian manifold, V D m (r) the volume of a small geodesic ball for the connection D and C C D 1 the first non-trivial term of the Taylor expansion of V D m (r). NK-manifolds are characterized in terms of C C D 1 and a family of Hermitian manifolds for which ∫ M C C D 1 dvol is a spectral invariant is given and one proves that C C D 1 and the spectrum of the complex Laplacian, together, determine the class in which a compact Hermitian manifold lines.

On a-semiaffine planes with invisible lines

1987

Translationsstrukturen, die weder axial noch zentral sind

1979

A topological obstruction to the geodesibility of a foliation of odd dimension

1981

Let M be a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension n, and let ℱ be a smooth foliation on M. A topological obstruction is obtained, similar to results of R. Bott and J. Pasternack, to the existence of a metric on M for which ℱ is totally geodesic. In this case, necessarily that portion of the Pontryagin algebra of the subbundle ℱ must vanish in degree n if ℱ is odd-dimensional. Using the same methods simple proofs of the theorems of Bott and Pasternack are given.

Point counting on Picard curves in large characteristic

2005

We present an algorithm for computing the cardinality of the Jacobian of a random Picard curve over a finite field. If the underlying field is a prime field Fp, the algorithm has complexity O(p).

An elementary proof of Hilbertʼs theorem on ternary quartics

2012

Abstract In 1888, Hilbert proved that every nonnegative quartic form f = f ( x , y , z ) with real coefficients is a sum of three squares of quadratic forms. His proof was ahead of its time and used advanced methods from topology and algebraic geometry. Up to now, no elementary proof is known. Here we present a completely new approach. Although our proof is not easy, it uses only elementary techniques. As a by-product, it gives information on the number of representations f = p 1 2 + p 2 2 + p 3 2 of f up to orthogonal equivalence. We show that this number is 8 for generically chosen f, and that it is 4 when f is chosen generically with a real zero. Although these facts were known, there wa…

New lower bounds for the minimum distance of generalized algebraic geometry codes

2013

Abstract In this paper, we give a new lower bound for generalized algebraic geometry codes with which we are able to construct some new linear codes having better parameters compared with the ones known in the literature. Moreover, we give a relationship between a family of generalized algebraic geometry codes and algebraic geometry codes. Finally, we propose a decoding algorithm for such a family.

Efficient computation of the branching structure of an algebraic curve

2012

An efficient algorithm for computing the branching structure of a compact Riemann surface defined via an algebraic curve is presented. Generators of the fundamental group of the base of the ramified covering punctured at the discriminant points of the curve are constructed via a minimal spanning tree of the discriminant points. This leads to paths of minimal length between the points, which is important for a later stage where these paths are used as integration contours to compute periods of the surface. The branching structure of the surface is obtained by analytically continuing the roots of the equation defining the algebraic curve along the constructed generators of the fundamental gro…

Classification of n-dimensional subvarieties of G(1, 2n) that can be projected to G(1, n + 1)

2005

A structure theorem is given for n-dimensional smooth subvarieties of the Grassmannian G(1, N); with N >= n + 3, that can be isomorphically projected to G(1, n + 1). A complete classification in the cases N = 2n + 1 and N = 2n follows, as a corollary.