scholarly journals The space of arcs of an algebraic variety

2018 ◽  
pp. 169-197
Author(s):  
Tommaso de Fernex
Keyword(s):  
Algebraic Variety

A Module-theoretic Characterization of Algebraic Hypersurfaces

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 166-173
Author(s):  
Cleto B. Miranda-Neto
Keyword(s):  
Algebraic Variety ◽  
Characteristic Zero ◽  
Vector Fields ◽  
Exterior Power ◽  
Algebraic Hypersurfaces ◽  
Theoretic Characterization

AbstractIn this note we prove the following surprising characterization: if X ⊂ is an (embedded, non-empty, proper) algebraic variety deûned over a field k of characteristic zero, then X is a hypersurface if and only if the module of logarithmic vector fields of X is a reflexive -module. As a consequence of this result, we derive that if is a free -module, which is shown to be equivalent to the freeness of the t-th exterior power of for some (in fact, any) t ≤ n, then necessarily X is a Saito free divisor.

Some results concerning the local analytic branches of an algebraic variety

1953 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 386-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. G. Northcott
Keyword(s):  
Algebraic Geometry ◽  
Power Series ◽  
Algebraic Variety ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Noetherian Rings ◽  
Local Rings ◽  
Power Series Rings ◽  
Analytic Algebra ◽  
Topological Theories

The recent progress of modern algebra in analysing, from the algebraic standpoint, the foundations of algebraic geometry, has been marked by the rapid development of what may be called ‘analytic algebra’. By this we mean the topological theories of Noetherian rings that arise when one uses ideals to define neighbourhoods; this includes, for instance, the theory of power-series rings and of local rings. In the present paper some applications are made of this kind of algebra to some problems connected with the notion of a branch of a variety at a point.

ALGEBRO-GEOMETRIC INVARIANTS OF GROUPS (THE DIMENSION SEQUENCE OF A REPRESENTATION VARIETY)

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (04) ◽  
pp. 595-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. LIRIANO ◽  
S. MAJEWICZ
Keyword(s):  
Algebraic Group ◽  
Free Group ◽  
Algebraic Variety ◽  
Commutator Subgroup ◽  
Finitely Generated ◽  
Finitely Generated Group ◽  
Geometric Invariants ◽  
Torus Knot ◽  
Irreducible Components ◽  
Irreducible Variety

If G is a finitely generated group and A is an algebraic group, then RA(G) = Hom (G, A) is an algebraic variety. Define the "dimension sequence" of G over A as Pd(RA(G)) = (Nd(RA(G)), …, N0(RA(G))), where Ni(RA(G)) is the number of irreducible components of RA(G) of dimension i (0 ≤ i ≤ d) and d = Dim (RA(G)). We use this invariant in the study of groups and deduce various results. For instance, we prove the following: Theorem A.Let w be a nontrivial word in the commutator subgroup ofFn = 〈x1, …, xn〉, and letG = 〈x1, …, xn; w = 1〉. IfRSL(2, ℂ)(G)is an irreducible variety andV-1 = {ρ | ρ ∈ RSL(2, ℂ)(Fn), ρ(w) = -I} ≠ ∅, thenPd(RSL(2, ℂ)(G)) ≠ Pd(RPSL(2, ℂ)(G)). Theorem B.Let w be a nontrivial word in the free group on{x1, …, xn}with even exponent sum on each generator and exponent sum not equal to zero on at least one generator. SupposeG = 〈x1, …, xn; w = 1〉. IfRSL(2, ℂ)(G)is an irreducible variety, thenPd(RSL(2, ℂ)(G)) ≠ Pd(RPSL(2, ℂ)(G)). We also show that if G = 〈x1, . ., xn, y; W = yp〉, where p ≥ 1 and W is a word in Fn = 〈x1, …, xn〉, and A = PSL(2, ℂ), then Dim (RA(G)) = Max {3n, Dim (RA(G′)) +2 } ≤ 3n + 1 for G′ = 〈x1, …, xn; W = 1〉. Another one of our results is that if G is a torus knot group with presentation 〈x, y; xp = yt〉 then Pd(RSL(2, ℂ)(G))≠Pd(RPSL(2, ℂ)(G)).

scholarly journals A remark on the Grothendieck-Lefschetz theorem about the Picard group

1978 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 169-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucian Bădescu
Keyword(s):  
Algebraic Variety ◽  
Picard Group ◽  
Closed Field ◽  
Algebraically Closed Field ◽  
Arbitrary Characteristic ◽  
Lefschetz Theorem

Let K be an algebraically closed field of arbitrary characteristic. The term “variety” always means here an irreducible algebraic variety over K. The notations and the terminology are borrowed in general from EGA [4].

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