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Algebraic Geometry Seminar


Date: Tuesday, Jan 22, 2013

Time: 3:30PM - 4:30PM

Location: LCB 215


Zachary Maddock

Columbia University

Title

Regular del Pezzo surfaces with irregularity

Abstract

Over perfect fields, the geometry of regular del Pezzo surfaces has been classified, but over imperfect fields, the problem remains largely open. We construct the first examples of regular del Pezzo surfaces X that have positive irregularity h^1(X, O_X ) > 0. Our construction is by quotienting a regular, quasi-linear surface (i.e. a regular variety that is geometrically a non-reduced first-order neighborhood of a plane) by explicit rank 1 foliations. We also find a restriction on the integer pairs that are possible as the anti-canonical degree and irregularity of such surfaces.

Algebraic Geometry

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