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Algebraic Geometry Seminar


Date: Tuesday, Oct 24, 2017

Time: 3:30PM - 4:30PM

Location: LCB 215


Takumi Murayama

University of Michigan

Title

Characterizations of projective space and Seshadri constants in arbitrary characteristic

Abstract

Mori and Mukai conjectured that projective space should be the only n-dimensional Fano variety whose anti-canonical bundle has degree at least n + 1 along every curve. While this conjecture has been proved in characteristic zero, it remains open in positive characteristic. We will present some progress in this direction by giving another characterization of projective space using Seshadri constants and the Frobenius morphism. The key ingredient is a positive-characteristic analogue of Demailly’s criterion for separation of higher-order jets by adjoint bundles.

Algebraic Geometry

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