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Motivation for birational geometry
I'm interested in how do people that work in birational geometry view their field — specifically, what are the kinds of geometric questions (as opposed to commutative-algebraic questions) that ...
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surface with rational curve in the double locus
I am interested in the existence of a surface $X$ over $\mathbb{C}$ with the following properties (or a reason for why one cannot exist):
$X$ is slc (and not-normal)
There is rational curve $C \...
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How much information is encoded in the Jacobian-Kummer K3 surface of a curve of genus two?
Assume we work over $\mathbb{C}$.
Let $S\subset \mathbb{P}^3$ be a quartic surfaces with 16 nodes (ordinary double points). Then there is a simple principally polarized abelian surface $(A,\theta)$ ...
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(Non-)Rationality of a certain quotient of the symmetric square of the Fermat sextic (quartic) curve
Consider the Fermat sextic curve $F: x^6 + y^6 + 1 = 0$ over an algebraically closed field of characteristic $0$. It has the two order $3$ automorphisms $\omega_x(x,y) := (\omega x, y)$ and $\omega_y(...