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comment How many polynomial Morse functions on the sphere?
If you consider the case $n=2$, I believe the precise answer to your question should be known for all $d$. V.I. Arnol'd was interested in such type of questions, originally in the case when you replace $S^1$ by $\mathbb R^1$ and homogeneous polynomials by inhomogeneous. Probably one should chase the references to Arnold's article : mathnet.ru/php/… You might also want to have a look on the article of Barannikov "On the space of real polynomials without multiple critical values"
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comment finite dimensional real division algebras
There is a readable proof in the book of Shafarevich "basic algebraic geometry" of the fact that these algebras have dimension $2^n$. The proof indeed uses Bezout's theorem.
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comment cohomology of a normal crossing divisor
This is not true, consider for example a divisor $D$ on a surface that is a wheel of $\mathbb P^1$'s, i.e, each $\mathbb P^1$ intersects two neighbouring $\mathbb P^1$'s. Then $\pi_1(D)=\mathbb Z$, so $H^1(D)=\mathbb Z$.
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accepted Solid angles of a tetrahedron
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revised Solid angles of a tetrahedron
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answered Solid angles of a tetrahedron
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revised Bolza curve admits no anticonformal fixedpointfree involution
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answered Bolza curve admits no anticonformal fixedpointfree involution
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comment Darboux Surface
Noam, sure I want lines to vary too, so this becomes YQ's question in dimension one less.
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comment Darboux Surface
This a very nice question! I wonder if a similar statement holds in $\mathbb P^2$ - if you take five lines, $10$ intersection points of them and consider quartics that contain these $10$ points, is it true that double conic is not in the Zariski closure of the space of such quartics?
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comment What can one say about (differentiable) topological structure of CY3s?
Dear Kim, by Bogomolov-Beuaville theorem every CY manifold has a finite cover that is a product of Tori, hyperkahler manifolds and manifolds $M^n$ such that $H^k(M^n,O)=0$ for $k\ne 0,n$. So for some people "proper" CY manifolds are only those that satisfy the last condition: $H^k(M^n,O)=0$ for $k\ne 0,n$. Such manifolds also have the property that the holonomy group of CY metrics on them coincide with $SU(n)$ (and not smaller than this). Such manifolds do have finite fundamental groups. Maybe for Oguis-Sakurai a Kahler manifold is $CY$ iff it has a holomorphic volume form...
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revised What can one say about (differentiable) topological structure of CY3s?
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answered What can one say about (differentiable) topological structure of CY3s?
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accepted Betti numbers of Proper nonprojective varieties
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comment Betti numbers of Proper nonprojective varieties
Donu, thanks for the reference, I'll have a look (and will try to see if indeed I have an alternative proof :) ). LMN, you are welcome :)
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comment Properties of quotient variety
Consider the following example: $(x,y)\to (x^2,y)$. Then the preimage of the curve $x=y^2$ under this map is $x=\pm y$. It is singular at $(0,0)$. It seems to me that you need to make the question a bit more specific...
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revised Birational Automorphisms and infinite divisibility
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comment Birational Automorphisms and infinite divisibility
Yves, thanks I was a bit sloppy :) . But for \mathbb Q this is ture :)
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comment Birational Automorphisms and infinite divisibility
Daniel, the claim is that any homomorphism from $\mathbb Z[1/2]$ to $GL(n,\mathbb Z)$ sends $\mathbb Z[1/2]$ to $1$, since $1$ in $GL(n,\mathbb Z)$ is the only infinitely divisible element.
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answered Birational Automorphisms and infinite divisibility
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accepted singular divisors in a complete linear system
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comment Are rational varieties simply connected?
Thank you Vesselin. The property of been rationally connected is a birational invariant, I guess?
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comment Are rational varieties simply connected?
Sandor, thank you :), I completely agree with you, I added missing words. In fact I was meaning "rational complex projective varieties". I don't know what is the definition of rationally connected projective varieties in the case they are singular. For example, if you consider a cone over a genus $g>0$ curve, every to points can be connected by a two $\mathbb P^1$'s (through the center of the cone), but I don't think this variety should be called rationally connected...
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revised Are rational varieties simply connected?
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comment Are rational varieties simply connected?
Dear Laurent I decided to check the reference and it looks to me that the proof of the fact is not really there. It is proven in two ways that projective spaces over algebraically closed fields are simply connected SGA 1. XI. Prop. 1.1, ( arxiv.org/pdf/math/0206203v2.pdf) and then comes corollary 1.2 without an actual proof. It is just said there that the proof is the same as for projective space :). Could you indicate how to make this an actual proof? I am asking this because I want to see how to make a proof over C without Hironaka's resolution of singularities.
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answered another diameter-perimeter-area inequality
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comment Why are the holomorphic line bundle sections finite dimensional?
I really like this reasoning with Montel theorem :)
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answered Why are the holomorphic line bundle sections finite dimensional?
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accepted a diameter-perimeter-area inequality for convex figures
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revised singular divisors in a complete linear system
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comment singular divisors in a complete linear system
James, thank you! Of course this is what I meant :)
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answered singular divisors in a complete linear system
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comment a diameter-perimeter-area inequality for convex figures
Connor, that is of course correct. In fact, I was thinking of exactly this example but for some reason (I guess to make the answer as short :) ) as possible put the vertices of the rombus in $\pm 1, \pm varepsilon$) instead of what I had in mind.
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comment a diameter-perimeter-area inequality for convex figures
I also called rectangle what should be called a rombus :)