The Canonical Module of GT-Varieties and the Normal Bundle of RL-Varieties

In this paper, we study the geometry of GT-varieties $$X_{d}$$ X d with group a finite cyclic group $$\Gamma \subset {{\,\mathrm{GL}\,}}(n+1,\mathbb {K})$$ Γ ⊂ GL ( n + 1 , K ) of order d. We prove that the homogeneous ideal $${{\,\mathrm{I}\,}}(X_{d})$$ I ( X d ) of $$X_{d}$$ X d is generated by binomials of degree at most 3 and we provide examples reaching this bound. We give a combinatorial description of the canonical module of the homogeneous coordinate ring of $$X_{d}$$ X d and we show that it is generated by monomial invariants of $$\Gamma $$ Γ of degree d and 2d. This allows us to characterize the Castelnuovo–Mumford regularity of the homogeneous coordinate ring of $$X_d$$ X d . Finally, we compute the cohomology table of the normal bundle of the so-called RL-varieties. They are projections of the Veronese variety $$\nu _{d}(\mathbb {P}^{n}) \subset \mathbb {P}^{\left( {\begin{array}{c}n+d\\ n\end{array}}\right) -1}$$ ν d ( P n ) ⊂ P n + d n - 1 which naturally arise from level GT-varieties.

Index estimates for closed minimal submanifolds of the sphere

In this paper we are interested in comparing the spectra of two elliptic operators acting on a closed minimal submanifold of the Euclidean unit sphere. Using an approach introduced by Savo in [A Savo. Index Bounds for Minimal Hypersurfaces of the Sphere. Indiana Univ. Math. J. 59 (2010), 823-837.], we are able to compare the eigenvalues of the stability operator acting on sections of the normal bundle and the Hodge Laplacian operator acting on $1$ -forms. As a byproduct of the technique and under a suitable hypothesis on the Ricci curvature of the submanifold we obtain that its first Betti's number is bounded from above by a multiple of the Morse index, which provide evidence for a well-known conjecture of Schoen and Marques & Neves in the setting of higher codimension.

Twistor spaces on foliated manifolds

The theory of twistors on foliated manifolds is developed. We construct the twistor space of the normal bundle of a foliation. It is demonstrated that the classical constructions of the twistor theory lead to foliated objects and permit to formulate and prove foliated versions of some well-known results on holomorphic mappings. Since any orbifold can be understood as the leaf space of a suitably defined Riemannian foliation we obtain orbifold versions of the classical results as a simple consequence of the results on foliated mappings.

Anyon Networks from Geometric Models of Matter

This paper, completed in its present form by the second author after the first author passed away in 2019, describes an intended continuation of the previous joint work on anyons in geometric models of matter. This part outlines a construction of anyon tensor networks based on four-dimensional orbifold geometries and braid representations associated with surface-braids defined by multisections of the orbifold normal bundle of the surface of orbifold points.

Holonomy transformations for LIE subalgebroids

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>Given a foliation, there is a well-known notion of holonomy, which can be understood as an action that differentiates to the Bott connection on the normal bundle. We present an analogous notion for Lie subalgebroids, consisting of an effective action of the minimal integration of the Lie subalgebroid, and provide an explicit description in terms of conjugation by bisections. The construction is done in such a way that it easily extends to singular subalgebroids, which provide our main motivation.</p>

Null reductions of the M5-brane

We perform a general reduction of an M5-brane on a spacetime that admits a null Killing vector, including couplings to background 4-form fluxes and possible twisting of the normal bundle. We give the non-abelian extension of this action and present its supersymmetry transformations. The result is a class of supersymmetric non-Lorentzian gauge theories in 4+1 dimensions, which depend on the geometry of the six-dimensional spacetime. These can be used for DLCQ constructions of M5-branes reduced on various manifolds.

ADJUNCTION FOR VARIETIES WITH A ℂ* ACTION

Let X be a complex projective manifold, L an ample line bundle on X, and assume that we have a ℂ* action on (X;L). We classify such triples (X; L;ℂ*) for which the closure of a general orbit of the ℂ* action is of degree ≤ 3 with respect to L and, in addition, the source and the sink of the action are isolated fixed points, and the ℂ* action on the normal bundle of every fixed point component has weights ±1. We treat this situation by relating it to the classical adjunction theory. As an application, we prove that contact Fano manifolds of dimension 11 and 13 are homogeneous if their group of automorphisms is reductive of rank ≥ 2.