Questions tagged [line-bundles]
A continuously varying family of one-dimensional vector spaces over a topological space. A related tag is the vector-bundles tag.
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Two questions about line bundles over Kuranishi families
i'm studying the article "Variétés Kahleriennes dont la première classe de chern est nulle" by Arnaud Beauville and i have a couple of questions i would like to ask you, hoping they are not too ...
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When is the Clifford index of a curve computed by pencils?
Under which circumstances is the Clifford index of a curve computed by pencils?
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Restriction of a line bundle to a two-cycle
I am reading a paper on Chiral Differential Operators
http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0604179v3.pdf
and it says on page 23 that a line bundle over a manifold C can be characterized completely by its ...
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Birkhoff decomposition vanishing of the Chern numbers
Birkhoff decomposition vanishing of the Chern numbers of the holomorphic line bundles of the Birkhoff-Grothendieck decomposition, is some statement I read off in One of Connes papers. Without going ...
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Unicity of a vector field on $S^1$-bundle
Let M be a complex smooth manifold,and let $\zeta $ be a vector filed on $M$, why always there exists a unique vector field $\hat{\zeta }$ on $L^{\times}$ which project down to $\zeta $ and $\alpha( ...
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An isomorphism on space of smooth sections
Let $M$ be a smooth complex manifold and $L$ be a complex line bundle over $M$. Let $\Gamma(M,L)$ be the space of smooth sections. Why $\Gamma(M,L)$ is it isomorphic to
$$A=\{f:L^{\times}\to \mathbb{...
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Isomorphism of connections on a complex line bundle
Reading an article I faced with the following theorem, please give me a reference to a proof of the fact which is stated without any reference in the article. Is it a well-known fact?
Theorem. Let $E ...
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Uniqueness on square root of complex Line Bundle
Let $L$ be a line bundle over a compex manifold $X$, a square-root of $L$ is a line bundle $M$ such that $M^{\otimes2}=L$. My question is when the square-root of Line Bundle is unique?
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Hopf lemma for line bundles on curves in algebraic geometry
In the paper http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0110256v1.pdf Claire Voisin proves that all linear subspaces which lie inside of a (not too big) secant variety of a smooth projective curve must lie inside one ...
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canonical bundle of the relative spectrum
maybe it is a very trivial quetion but:
suppose we have a smooth projective variety $X$ over $k$ and $\mathcal{A}$ an $\mathcal{O}_X$ algebra. We have the relative spectrum $Spec(Sym(\mathcal{A}))\...
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Could we construct the Jacobian variety of a smooth curve $C$ with genus $>2$ from its derived category $D(C)$?
Let's consider a smooth curve $C$ over $\mathbb{C}$. We know that the Jacobian variety $Jac(C)$ of $C$ is the moduli space of the degree $0$ line bundles on $C$. $Jac(C)$ is an abelian variety of ...
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Ample Line Bundles on Algebraic Spaces
The sources known to me (Knutson's Algebraic Spaces and Pascual-Gainza's Ampleness criteria for algebraic spaces) define a line bundle $L$ on an algebraic space $X$ (over a base scheme $S$) to be ...
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extension of torsion line bundles
Assume that you are given a smooth projective algebraic variety $X$ and a divisor $D$ with normal crossings on it. Put $U=X-D$. Assume now that $L$ is a torsion line bundle(=invertible sheaf) on $U$, ...
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Vanishing theorems in positive characteristic
In the paper
Deligne, Pierre; Illusie, Luc (1987), "Relèvements modulo $p^{2}$ et décomposition du complexe de De Rham", Inventiones Mathematicae 89 (2): 247–270, doi:10.1007/BF01389078
I found the ...
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What is Kirillov's method good for?
I am planing to study Kirillov's orbit method. I have seen Kirillov's method in several branch of mathematics, for instance, functional analysis, geometry, .... Why is this theory important for ...
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Trivial Line Bundle-Riemann surfaces
What are the Hermitian metrics in a trivial line bundle on a Riemann surface X?
I read that a Hermitian metric in the trivial line bundle is equivalent to a $\mathcal{C}^{\infty}$ weight function $\...
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canonical model of a reducible curve
Let $C$ be a stable reducible curve. Is there a natural way to define it's canonical model (I guess via the dualizing sheaf)? And does somehow the dualizing sheaf restrict to the (probably twisted) ...
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Line bundles on K3 surfaces
Let $L$ be a line bundle on an (algebraic) K3 surface over a field $k$. The Riemann-Roch theorem specializes to
$$
\chi(X, L)=\frac{1}{2}(L\cdot L)+2
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which can be rewritten as
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h^0(X, L)+h^0(...
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How many flat connections has a line bundle in algebraic geometry?
Suppose $X$ is a projective variety over $\mathbb C$. I am happy to entertain more or different adjectives — I'm not looking for the most general statement, but rather to understand when and how ...
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On morphisms to projective space arising from a linear system
Context: This question arose as I was reading the proof of Application 6.1 in Mumford's Abelian Varieties. However, I have extracted all of the relevant information below so this question should ...
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Extending line bundles
Suppose you have a one parameter family of algebraic varieties over unit disk, such that the central fiber is singular and is a union (normal-crossing) of two varieties and the rest are smooth.
Is it ...
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divisors and powers of line bundles
Can anyone help me with the following question? Let $X$ be a smooth, projective algebraic variety over a field $k$ of characteristic zero. Let $D$ be an effective divisor on $X$ and $m \geq 2$ an ...
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How does the line bundles look like on a proper model (or Néron model) of an abelian variety?
How does the line bundles look like on a proper model (or Néron model) of an abelian variety?
Who knows references about this?
In particular, let us work over a trait $S=\mathrm{Spec} R$, where $R$ ...
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Non-compact Kähler manifolds which admit a positive line bundle
A complex manifold which admits a positive line bundle is automatically Kähler. Furthermore, if the manifold is compact, then it is projective by the Kodaira Embedding Theorem. In particular, not ...
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pairing theta functions for different complex structures
I apologize for my previous attempt to ask this, which was very badly written.
Let us start with $\mathbb{C}\times\mathbb{C}$. To form an Hermitian line bundle over a complex torus with complex ...
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Theta functions and Fourier transforms
Let $T_\tau$ be the 2-dimensional torus, with the complex structure induced by the lattice generated by $1$ and $\tau$. Then for a line bundle $L_k$ over $T$ with level $k$, there is an orthonormal ...
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Cohomology of line bundles
For sure answers to my questions are well known - but I never saw them anywhere.
Let $X$ be a smooth projective (or just proper) variety over an algebraically closed field $k$. Let $A_i$ be the ...
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line bundles and universal covers
When dealing with some lifting problems, I came across the following problem, which probably has a well-known answer, but anyway:
Suppose I have a (locally contractible) connected topological group $G$...
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Pedagogical notes on line bundles on complex projective manifolds
I would like to find some notes (or book), that explains on a very basic level what is a line bundle on a complex projective manifold. Maybe even, what is a line bundle on $\mathbb CP^n$. It seems ...
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Is there a mathematical explanation for the Aharonov-Casher effect?
Recall that the Aharonov-Bohm effect can be interpreted mathematically as follows.
Consider an electromagnetic field A on some smooth manifold M, i.e., A is an element in the first differential ...
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etale covers of line bundles on an abelian variety
subj: etale covers of line bundles on an abelian variety
Is there an explicit decryption of finite
etale covers of a line bundle $L$ on an abelian variety and its associated C*-bundles
$L^o = L \...
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Connections on line bundles over the torus
If I understand correctly, every line bundle $L$ over the (2-dim) torus can be obtained from a quotient of $\mathbb{R}^2 \times \mathbb{C}$ by a $\mathbb{Z}^2$ lattice action. Different line bundles ...
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What is the geometric point of view of an algebraic line bundle compared to a analytic line bundle?
Hi folkz,
I'm trying to learn more about line bundles, invertible sheaves and divisors on schemes. I understand the connection beweteen Cartier and Weil Divisors and the connection between Cartier ...
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What can be said about a pullback of a very ample line bundle w.r.t birational maps?
Let $X$ be a smooth projective variety and $\phi: X \to \mathbb P^n$ be a map. If $\phi$ is an embedding then $E=\phi^*(O(1))$ is very ample. But can one say something if $\phi$
is birational (but not ...
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Line bundles with complex connection
Suppose that we have a complex manifold $X$, and a line bundle $L$ over $X$. It is known that the line bundles over $X$ are parametrized by their Chern class, the Chern class being the cohomology ...
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Is the double-twisted Moebius strip isotopic to the trivial strip?
Abstractly, on the topological circle $S^1$ there are only two real line bundles, up to isomorphism: the trivial one $\mathcal{O}$ and the Moebius strip $\mathcal{O}(1)$ (thinking of $S^1$ as $\mathbb{...
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Uniformity of injectivity for maps associated to linear systems
Let $X$ be a compact complex manifold and $L\to X$ a holomorphic line bundle (without any a priori assumption on its positivity).
Suppose that for each $x,y\in X$, with $x\ne y$, there exists a $k_0\...
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How can one check that two line bundles on $\overline{M}_{0,n}$ coincide?
Let $X$ be the Deligne-Mumford compactification of $\mathcal{M}_{0,n}$. Suppose I have two (big) line bundles $L$ and $L'$ on $X$ and that I want to show that they are the same element of $Pic(X)$. Of ...
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Line bundles on Ind Schemes
I've learned when you have a integral smooth scheme line bundles are the same as Cartier divisors are the same as Weil divisors. My question is to what extent does this continue to hold (if at all) ...
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Connections with compatible Hermitian products on complex line bundles
Let $X$ be a manifold, $L$ be a complex line bundle over $X$, and $L^{*}$ be the associated principal bundle. Suppose $\alpha$ is a connection form on $L^{*}$, with associated connection $D$ on $L$. ...
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Does the normalization of a projective morphism determine the line bundle?
Let $X$ be a smooth, complete algebraic variety and suppose I have two projective, birational morphisms
$$f:X \to \mathbb{P}^n$$
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$$g:X \to \mathbb{P}^m,$$
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Does the semi-stable set determine the linearization of a GIT quotient?
Suppose I have a morphism $f:X\to Y$ which is a GIT quotient of $X$ with respect to some reductive, linear group.
Does the semistable $X^{ss}$ and stable locus $X^s\subset X$ determine completely the ...
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Line bundles, linear systems and normalization
One example that I always have in mind is that the plane nodal (or even the plane cuspidal) cubic curve $X$ is obtained by an appropirate 2-dim linear subsystem of $|\mathcal{O} (3)|$ on $\mathbb{P}^...
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Do simplicial toric varieties have "lots" of base point free linear systems?
Question: Let $n$ be a positive integer and let $X$ be a simplicial toric variety. Does every coset of $n\cdot Pic(X)\subseteq Pic(X)$ contain a base point free linear system?
If $X$ is not ...
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Line bundles on fibrations
Let $f:Y \to X$ be a flat morphism with positive dimensional fibers. Is it always true that line bundles that are trivial along each fiber are of type $f^*L$ for $L$ a line bundle on $X$?
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Are bundle gerbes bundles of algebras?
The category of line bundles (possibly with connection)
on a smooth manifold M can be defined in two different ways:
The first definition uses transition functions that satisfy a cocycle condition
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Cohomology theory for symplectic manifolds
Suppose I have a symplectic manifold $(M,\omega)$ and a line bundle $\mathcal L$ with a connection with curvature $\omega$ (or perhaps it's more standard to say $\frac i{2\pi}\omega$; anyway, the ...
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Pulling back a line bundle on the Jacobian to a spin bundle on the curve
I'd like to have an expression for the (or some) line bundle on the Jacobian $J$ of a smooth complex projective curve $C$ with genus $g >1$ which pulls back to a chosen spin bundle (theta ...
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Followup; Strict Transform of a Line Bundle
This is a follow up to my previous question, and I have lowered my demands to a situation as follows:
Let $X$ be an algebraic variety, $\mathcal{I}$ a coherent sheaf of ideals and $\mathcal{L}$ a ...
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Is there an algebraic construction of the Quillen (determinant) Line Bundle?
Let's consider the moduli space of representations of $\pi=\pi_1(\Sigma)$ (a surface group) into $G$ (a lie group). Call this $X=\operatorname{Hom}(\pi,G)$, and let $Y=\operatorname{Hom}(\pi,G)/\\!/G$...
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