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Algebraic Geometry Seminar


Date: Tuesday, Sep 6, 2016

Time: 3:30PM - 4:30PM

Location: LCB 222


Chung Ching Lau

University of Utah

Title

On subvarieties with nef normal bundle

Abstract

The goal of this talk is to study the positivity of subvarieties with nef normal bundle in terms of intersection theory. We first give a generalization to the notion of subvarieties with nef normal bundle, via the positivity of the exceptional divisor. We call these subvarieties nef. Then we show that restriction of a pseudoeffective divisor to a nef subvariety is pseudoeffective. We also show that nefness is a transitive property. Next, we define the weakly movable cone as the cone generated by the pushforward of cycle classes of nef subvarieties via proper surjective maps, and show that this cone contains the movable cone and shares similar intersection-theoretic properties with it, using the aforementioned properties of nef subvarieties. The main tool used in this work is the theory of $q$-ample divisors, as developed by Totaro.

Algebraic Geometry

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