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On the slope of hyperelliptic fibrations with positive relative irregularity

2016

Let $f:\, S \to B$ be a locally non-trivial relatively minimal fibration of hyperelliptic curves of genus $g\geq 2$ with relative irregularity $q_f$. We show a sharp lower bound on the slope $\lambda_f$ of $f$. As a consequence, we prove a conjecture of Barja and Stoppino on the lower bound of $\lambda_f$ as an increasing function of $q_f$ in this case, and we also prove a conjecture of Xiao on the ampleness of the direct image of the relative canonical sheaf if $\lambda_f<4$.

Local Gromov-Witten invariants are log invariants

2019

We prove a simple equivalence between the virtual count of rational curves in the total space of an anti-nef line bundle and the virtual count of rational curves maximally tangent to a smooth section of the dual line bundle. We conjecture a generalization to direct sums of line bundles.

Existence of common zeros for commuting vector fields on 3‐manifolds II. Solving global difficulties

2020

We address the following conjecture about the existence of common zeros for commuting vector fields in dimension three: if $X,Y$ are two $C^1$ commuting vector fields on a $3$-manifold $M$, and $U$ is a relatively compact open such that $X$ does not vanish on the boundary of $U$ and has a non vanishing Poincar\'e-Hopf index in $U$, then $X$ and $Y$ have a common zero inside $U$. We prove this conjecture when $X$ and $Y$ are of class $C^3$ and every periodic orbit of $Y$ along which $X$ and $Y$ are collinear is partially hyperbolic. We also prove the conjecture, still in the $C^3$ setting, assuming that the flow $Y$ leaves invariant a transverse plane field. These results shed new light on t…

Arithmetic hyperbolicity and a stacky Chevalley-Weil theorem

2020

We prove an analogue for algebraic stacks of Hermite-Minkowski's finiteness theorem from algebraic number theory, and establish a Chevalley-Weil type theorem for integral points on stacks. As an application of our results, we prove analogues of the Shafarevich conjecture for some surfaces of general type.

Effectively Computing Integral Points on the Moduli of Smooth Quartic Curves

2016

We prove an effective version of the Shafarevich conjecture (as proven by Faltings) for smooth quartic curves. To do so, we establish an effective version of Scholl's finiteness result for smooth del Pezzo surfaces of degree at most four.

Symmetric frames on Lorentzian spaces

1991

Symmetric frames (those whose vectors are metrically indistinguishable) are studied both, from the algebraic and differential points of view. Symmetric frames which, in addition, remain indistinguishable for a given set of concomitants of the metric are analyzed, and the necessary and sufficient conditions for a space‐time to admit them are given. A new version of the cosmological principle then follows. Natural symmetric frames (induced by local charts) are also considered, and the space‐times admitting them are obtained.

Boundary quotients and ideals of Toeplitz C∗-algebras of Artin groups

2006

We study the quotients of the Toeplitz C*-algebra of a quasi-lattice ordered group (G,P), which we view as crossed products by a partial actions of G on closed invariant subsets of a totally disconnected compact Hausdorff space, the Nica spectrum of (G,P). Our original motivation and our main examples are drawn from right-angled Artin groups, but many of our results are valid for more general quasi-lattice ordered groups. We show that the Nica spectrum has a unique minimal closed invariant subset, which we call the boundary spectrum, and we define the boundary quotient to be the crossed product of the corresponding restricted partial action. The main technical tools used are the results of …

Some remarks on minimal surfaces in riemannian manifolds

1970

Conformal Killing forms on nearly Kähler manifolds

2020

Abstract We study conformal Killing forms on compact 6-dimensional nearly Kahler manifolds. Our main result concerns forms of degree 3. Here we give a classification showing that all conformal Killing 3-forms are linear combinations of dω and its Hodge dual ⁎ d ω , where ω is the fundamental 2-form of the nearly Kahler structure. The proof is based on a fundamental integrability condition for conformal Killing forms. We have partial results in the case of conformal Killing 2-forms. In particular we show the non-existence of J-anti-invariant Killing 2-forms.

Generic properties of singular trajectories

1997

Abstract Let M be a σ-compact C∞ manifold of dimension d ≥ 3. Consider on M a single-input control system : x (t) = F 0 (x(t)) + u(t) F 1 (x(t)) , where F0, F1 are C∞ vector fields on M and the set of admissible controls U is the set of bounded measurable mappings u : [0Tu]↦ R , Tu > 0. A singular trajectory is an output corresponding to a control such that the differential of the input-output mapping is not of maximal rank. In this article we show that for an open dense subset of the set of pairs of vector fields (F0, F1), endowed with the C∞-Whitney topology, all the singular trajectories are with minimal order and the corank of the singularity is one.