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Rigorous trivialities is a web log about mathematics, but especially geometry, broadly construed. Contributors will be Charles Siegel, Jim Stankewicz and occasionally Matt Deland. Charles specializes in algebraic geometry, topology and mathematical physics. Jim specializes in arithmetic algebraic geometry. Matt has transitioned from algebraic geometry to work in industry.
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The sound you hear is another conjecture in birational geometry dropping like a fly
These are interesting times to look over the algebraic geometry arxiv postings. Just over a week ago, there was a posting by Tanaka which claimed the minimal model program was false in characteristic two. Then yesterday at the top of … Continue reading
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The Gauss Map
Posting is slowing down a bit, I’ve got a paper I’m trying to get out, and a couple of projects that are hitting some preliminary results, plus, I’m getting ready for holiday travel, and then two months at Humboldt. Trying … Continue reading
Understanding Integration III: Jacobians
Now, we’re going to talk a bit about the geometry of the periods, which were completely analytic in nature. As we mentioned, for a compact Riemann surface , we have a period matrix that encodes the complex integration theory on … Continue reading
Understanding Integration II: 1-Forms and Periods
Last time, we discussed integration theory of functions along paths on Riemann surfaces, and then we decided that we wanted to talk about compact Riemann surfaces. Unfortunately, there aren’t any holomorphic functions on them, and meromorphic functions are the wrong … Continue reading
Understanding Integration I: Riemann Surfaces
I’m back! And now, posting from Kavli IPMU in Japan. Now, I’m going to start a series on theta functions, Jacobians, Pryms, and abelian varieties more generally, hopefully with some applications, with my goal being at least one post a … Continue reading
Prym Varieties
Let be an unramified double cover, where is geneus . Then has genus by the Riemann-Hurwitz formula. Now, encodes lots of information about the geometry of , especially with the additional data of the theta divisor. It turns out that … Continue reading
Rational Normal Scrolls
Today, we’re going to talk about a very important class of rational varieties, that show up all the time, in quite a variety of different contexts, and at the end, we’ll talk about why.
Determinantal Varieties
Let be the projectivization of . Then for all , we have a variety given as the set of matrices of rank at most , which is given by the vanishing of the determinents of minors. We call these the … Continue reading
Low Genus Moduli of Curves
Pretty much everything in this post is in Mumford’s “Curves and their Jacobians,” but I do a couple of things slightly differently, and I intend to supply a bit more detail in some places. The goal here is to construct … Continue reading
The Stanley-Reisner Ring
Today, we’re going to do something completely different, but which most of my peers seem not to have seen, but is a very cool application of algebraic geometry.
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