Questions tagged [algebraic-surfaces]
An algebraic surface is an algebraic variety of dimension two. In the case of geometry over the field of complex numbers, an algebraic surface has complex dimension two (as a complex manifold, when it is non-singular) and so of dimension four as a smooth manifold.
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Are all these K3 surfaces supersingular?
Consider all the smooth K3 surfaces given by $X^4+W^2X^2+XW^3 = f(Y,Z,W)$ or $X^4+XW^3 = g(Y,Z,W)$ over $\mathbb F_{2}$ with $f$ or $g$ homogenous of degree 4. There are a lot of choices for $f$ and $...
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What is the co-kernel of the morphism of vector bundles?
Let $X$ be a surface, and $i:C\subset X$ be a smooth curve. Let $A$ be a line bundle on $C$, and $E$ be a vector bundle of rank $r$ on $X$.
Suppose there is a surjection: $E\longrightarrow i_*A\...
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Enriques surfaces over $\mathbb Z$
Does there exist a smooth proper morphism $E \to \operatorname{Spec} \mathbb Z$ whose fibers are Enriques surfaces?
By a theorem of, independently, Fontaine and Abrashkin, combined with the Enriques-...
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Smoothing transverse intersections
Let $S$ be a complex surface with ample canonical class. Let $C_1$ and $C_2$ be smooth complex curves in $S$ that intersect transversally at $n $ points. Furthermore, assume that the self-intersection ...
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Disjoint curves in an algebraic surface
Let $X$ be an algebraic surface (over the complex) with $p_g=q=0$. Is it possible to have disjoint curves $C_1,\ldots, C_b$, of positive genus, spanning $H_2(X,{\mathbb Q})$, $b=b_2(X)$?
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A proper smooth surface is projective
My question is a reference request for the following fact: if $k$ is a field and $X$ a proper smooth surface over $k$, then $X \rightarrow \mathrm{Spec}\, k$ is projective. Where is this well-known ...
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Adjunction map for projective surfaces
Before stating my question, let me recall (part of) the classical result on the adjunction map for complex projective surfaces, due in this modern form to Beltrametti and Sommese:
Adjunction ...
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Pic^0 of the surface of bitangents of a quartic
Let $S$ be a generic quartic surface in $\mathbf{P}^3$.
Let $T$ be the surface of the lines bitangent to $S$.
What can we say about $Pic^0(T)$?
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Computing Euler Characteristics of Line Bundles on the Hilbert Scheme of n points
Let $S^{[n]}$ be the Hilbert scheme of $n$ points on a smooth projective surface (actually, right now I am particularly interested in del Pezzo surfaces). Let $B$ be the exceptional divisor of the ...
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Blow-up of $\mathbb{P}^4$ along a smooth surface
Let $\pi \colon X\to \mathbb{P}^4$ be the blow-up of a smooth surface $S\subset \mathbb{P}^4$. Is there a formula to compute $(K_X)^4$ ? (which should be dependent on invariants of $S$).
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Is there a description of the moduli space of elliptic surfaces?
In this question elliptic surface means a smooth projective complex surface $X$, such that there is an elliptic fibration $\pi \colon X \to C$. (I.e., there is a curve $C$ and a proper map $\pi$, such ...
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Hypersurface with singularities
I heard once about one open problem. That was about existing a hypersurface of a small degree (5? or 6?) passing through some number (5? 6?) of 3-fold points and 2-fold lines (3 lines?).
It was said ...
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Topological/numerical constraints for the existence of more than one pencil
A famous theorem of Castelnuovo and de Franchis tells us that for $S$ a smooth projective complex algebraic surface that for $b \geq 2$, pencils $f : S \to B$ of genus $b :=g(B)$ are in bijective ...
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Isotrivial fibrations over $\mathbb P^1$
First of all I want to say that algebraic geometry is not "my field of research" so I apologize if the notation is not standard.
$S$ is a smooth complex projective surface with a fibration $...
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Kummer Coverings
Let $L_1$, $\cdots$, $L_k$ be homogenous linear forms in three variables $z_0$, $z_1$, $z_2$ defining $k$ lines in $\mathbb{P}_{2}$. Consider the abelian extension $K
((L_2/L_1)^{1/n}, \cdots, (L_k/...
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Computing Euler Charactistics of Line bundles on Hilbert Schemes of points on Surfaces
Let $S^{[2]}$ be the Hilbert scheme of two points on a smooth projective surface (actually, right now I am particularly interested in del Pezzo surfaces). Let $B$ be the exceptional divisor of the ...
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Number of minimal models of a surface
I would like to know if the following statement is true or false:
Given a non-singular complex projective surface $S$, it has at most a countable number of minimal models (up to isomorphism).
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discriminant of smooth quartic del Pezzo surface in $\mathbb{P}^4$
I can't understand the proof of Lemma3.3 in Stability of genus 5 canonical curves.
Let $C$ be a complete intersection of three quadrics in $\mathbb{P}^4$ and let $\Lambda$ be the net of quadrics ...
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Understanding a proof of a lemma in elliptic surfaces
In the following paper , The Kahler-Ricci flow on surfaces of positive Kodaira dimension (Sung and Tian) in page 621, I am trying to understand the proof of part 1 of Lemma 3.4.
In the part 1 of ...
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Is each rationally chain connected surface rational?
Consider a 2-dimensional smooth projective algebraic surface S over complex numbers. Could you recommend any exact references to the proofs of the following assertions (of course, if they are true):
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Degree of a smooth curve in an abelian variety
Let $A$ be an abelian variety, $g$ be a positive integer and $\mathcal{L}$ be an ample line bundle on $A$.
Question : Is there a real $r>0$ such that, for all smooth curve $C$ of genus $g$ in $...
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vector bundles on $\mathbb{C}[x,y,z]/(x y - z^k)$
Let $A = \mathbb{C}[x,y,z]/(x y - z^k)$. In fact $A$ is the ring of $\mu_k$ invariants: $A = \mathbb{C}[u,v]^{\mu_k}$ where $g \in \mu_k$ acts by $g(u,v) = (g u, g^{-1} v)$.
This allows one to ...
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Divisors on an abelian surface
Let $A$ be an abelian surface given by the quotient of a product of two generic elliptic curves $E_1 \times E_2$ by the product $T_1 \times T_2$ of two translations by $2$-torsion points. Then $A$ ...
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Linear systems on bielliptic surfaces
A bielliptic surface is a surface of type $S=E_1 \times E_2/G$ where $E_1, E_2$ are elliptic curves and $G$ is a finite group of translations of $E_1$ acting on $E_2$ such that $E_2/G=\mathbf{P}^1$.
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Conjugate surfaces: informations about the orbits
Consider a complex algebraic variety $X$ (namely a $\mathbb C$-scheme, of finite type, geometrically integral and separated); if $\sigma\in\textrm{aut}(\mathbb C)$, then is well defined the complex ...
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Is the Tate conjecture known for etale covers of products of curves
Let $X$ be a (smooth projective geometrically connected) surface over a finitely generated field $k$. The Tate conjecture predicts that, for $l$ a prime number invertible in $k$, the Chern class map ...
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Mumford-Ramanujam examples in characteristic p [and in Arakelov geometry]
For a compact Riemann surface $B$ of genus $\geq 2$, it is a consequence of the Narasimhan-Seshadri theorem that there exist rank-$2$ vector bundles $E \to B$ of degree zero, all of whose symmetric ...
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Boundedness of the number of curves negative on a varying big divisor
For a divisor $D$ on a smooth complex projective surface $X$, the stable fixed part is the maximal effective divisor $E$ which, for every $n \in \mathbb{N}$, is contained in every memeber of the ...
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Cohomology of a fibered surface
Let $R$ be a complete Henselian discrete valuation ring, $\pi:X \to \mathrm{Spec} (R)$ be a smooth, proper, integral, flat $\mathrm{Spec} (R)$-scheme of dimension $2$. Assume that the genus of the ...
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First cohomological support locus of a fibration
I have a fibration $f \colon S \longrightarrow E$, where $S$ is a compact, complex surface of general type belonging to a special class I'm studying and $E$ is an elliptic curve.
I computed the ...
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Castelnuovo's rationality criterion on singular surfaces?
Let $S$ be a projective surface over an algebraically closed field. Suppose that $q(S)=h^1(\mathcal O_S)=0$ and $P_2(S)=h^0(\mathcal O_S(2K_S))=0$. If $S$ is smooth, Castelnuovo's rationality ...
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Linear system on an abelian surface
On a K3 surface $S$, a linear system $|C|$ is said to be hyperelliptic if the corresponding map is of degree 2 and the image is of degree $g_a(C)-1$ in $\mathbb P^{g_a}$.
For $g_a(C) > 2$, if $|C|...
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Intrinsically proving a singularity is rational
In general, how to prove a variety has rational singularities intrinsically? i.e., don't use the Artin's criterion concerning the exceptional locus. And what kinds of varieties have only rational ...
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Surfaces singular along a curve
Let $C\subset\mathbb{P}^3$ be a smooth curve a degree $d$ and genus $g$. Let $\mathcal{S}$ be the system of surfaces of degree $k$ in $\mathbb{P}^3$ containing $C$ with multiplicity $\beta$.
What is ...
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Kleiman's and Nakai-Moishezon's ampleness criteria
I would like to work out a simple example to understand the relation between Kleiman ampleness criterion and Nakai-Moishezon ampleness criterion.
Namely, let $X$ be the blow-up of $\mathbb{P}^{2}$ at ...
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Automorphisms of a smooth quadric surface $Q\subset\mathbb{P}^{3}$
Let $Q\cong\mathbb{P^{1}_{1}}\times\mathbb{P^{1}_{2}}\subset\mathbb{P}^{3}$ be a smooth quadric surface. We have the following two actions on $Q$:
$$S_2\times Q\rightarrow Q,\; (\sigma,(x,y))\mapsto\...
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Finite morphisms to projective space
Let $X$ be a projective variety of dimension n. Then there exists a finite surjective morphism $X \to \mathbf P^n$. Let $d$ be the minimal degree of such a finite surjective morphism.
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Does $h^1(D)=0$ imply numerical connectedness on K3 surfaces?
Let $X$ be a complex K3 surface and $D$ an effective divisor on $X$.
We shall say: $D$ is connected if its support is connected. $D$ is numerically connected if for any non-trivial effective ...
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K3 surface with $D_{14}$ singular fiber
Let $X$ be an elliptic K3 surface with $D_{14}$ singular fiber. Do you know an explicit equation for such $X$? Also, how many disjoint sections such fibration admits? Any reference would be greatly ...
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On the dualizing sheaf of a curve
Let $X$ be a smooth projective surface in $\mathbb{P}^n$ and $C$ be an effective curve. I know that the dualizing sheaf, $\omega_C$ of $C$ is $\mathcal{E}xt^{n-1}_{\mathbb{P}^n}(\mathcal{O}_C,K_{\...
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A question on very ample line bundle on smooth projective surfaces
I had been reading a couple of texts by J.P. Demailly, one of them titled "Effective bounds for very ample line bundles". In the introduction the author mentions a result due to I. Reider (stated in "...
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Torsion of the Picard group for surfaces isogenous to a product
We say that a complex surface $S$ is isogenous to an (unmixed) product if there exists a finite group $G$, acting faithfully on
two smooth projective curves $C_1$ and $C_2$ and freely on their
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Blowing up rational singularities
Let $X$ be a projective surface embedded into $\mathbb{P}^n_{\mathbb{C}}$ having at most rational singularities. Let $\tilde{X} \to X$ be the minimal resolution of $X$. Is it possible to embed $\tilde{...
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Locally trivial deformations of surfaces with quotient singularities
Let us consider the surface $\mathbb{A}^{2}/\mu_{6}$ where the action is given by
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\mu_{6}\times\mathbb{A}^{2} & \longrightarrow & \mathbb{A}^{2}\\
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Weyl group of a K3 surface
I am wondering wether the action of the Weyl group $W_X$ of a K3 surface $X$ is transitive on the sets of curves of fixed genus.
Suppose $W_X$ is non-trivial. Given two curves $C,C'$ of genus $g\...
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Why can you deform singularities in two dimensions but not in higher dimensions?
I've been trying to read this paper to understand deformations of surface quotient singularities. I'm particularly interested in when one can deform certain cyclic quotient singularities into other ...
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birational invariants of projective surfaces
I am studying Castelnuovo's rationality criterion for surfaces.
Let $S$ be a projective surface and $K$ a canonical divisor on $S$.
Let's use the notation $h^i(S,\mathcal{O}_S)=dimH^i(S,\mathcal{O}_S)...
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Hodge structure of abelian surfaces
In my case, I have an abelian surface $A$ of (2,8)-polarization, and I have some finite group (may not be abelian group) $G$ acting on $A$ without fixed point. I want to understand when there is a ...
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Points of a linear system on a cubic surface
Let $S$ be a generic cubic surface and let $C$ be its intersection with a generic quadric surface.
In the linear system of hyperplane sections of $S$, how many points represent the planes $H$ tangent ...
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Smoothness of the quotient surface by an involution with nice fixed locus
Let $X$ be a (smooth complex algebraic) surface. Suppose $\theta$ is an automorphism of order $2$ of $X$, such that its fixed locus is a disjoint union of smooth curves. I am trying to prove that the ...
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