Tropical geometry and Newton–Okounkov cones for Grassmannian of planes from compactifications

We construct a family of compactifications of the affine cone of the Grassmannian variety of $2$ -planes. We show that both the tropical variety of the Plücker ideal and familiar valuations associated to the construction of Newton–Okounkov bodies for the Grassmannian variety can be recovered from these compactifications. In this way, we unite various perspectives for constructing toric degenerations of flag varieties.

Smoothing cones over K3 surfaces

International audience We prove that the affine cone over a general primitively polarised K3 surface of genus g is smoothable if and only if g ≤ 10 or g = 12. We also give several examples of singularities with special behaviour, such as surfaces whose affine cone is smoothable even though the projective cone is not. Nous montrons que le cône affine sur une surface K3 primitivement polarisée générale de genre g est lissable si et seulement si g≤ 10 ou g = 12. Nous exhibons également plusieurs exemples de singularités affichant des comportements spécifiques, tels que des surfaces dont le cône affine est lissable alors même que le cône projectif ne l'est pas.

Connectedness and Lyubeznik Numbers

We investigate the relationship between connectedness properties of spectra and the Lyubeznik numbers, numerical invariants defined via local cohomology. We prove that for complete equidimensional local rings, the Lyubeznik numbers characterize when connectedness dimension equals 1. More generally, these invariants determine a bound on connectedness dimension. Additionally, our methods imply that the Lyubeznik number $\lambda _{1,2}(A)$ of the local ring $A$ at the vertex of the affine cone over a projective variety is independent of the choice of its embedding into projective space.

The volume of singular Kähler–Einstein Fano varieties

We show that the anti-canonical volume of an $n$-dimensional Kähler–Einstein $\mathbb{Q}$-Fano variety is bounded from above by certain invariants of the local singularities, namely $\operatorname{lct}^{n}\cdot \operatorname{mult}$ for ideals and the normalized volume function for real valuations. This refines a recent result by Fujita. As an application, we get sharp volume upper bounds for Kähler–Einstein Fano varieties with quotient singularities. Based on very recent results by Li and the author, we show that a Fano manifold is K-semistable if and only if a de Fernex–Ein–Mustaţă type inequality holds on its affine cone.

Equivariant Embeddings into Smooth Toric Varieties

We characterize embeddability of algebraic varieties into smooth toric varieties and prevarieties. Our embedding results hold also in an equivariant context and thus generalize a well-known embedding theorem of Sumihiro on quasiprojectiveG-varieties. The main idea is to reduce the embedding problem to the affine case. This is done by constructing equivariant affine conoids, a tool which extends the concept of an equivariant affine cone over a projectiveG-variety to a more general framework.

On Complex Homogeneous Spaces with Top Homology in Codimension Two

Define dx to be the codimension of the top nonvanishing homology group of the manifold X with coefficients in 2. We investigate homogeneous spaces X := G/H, where G is a connected complex Lie group and H is a closed complex subgroup for which dx = 1,2 and O(X) ≠ ℂ. There exists a fibration π: G/H → G/U such that G/U is holomorphically separable and π*(O(G/U)) = O(G/H), see [11]. We prove the following. If dx = 1, then F := U/H is compact and connected and Y :=G/U is an affine cone with its vertex removed. If dx = 2, then either F is connected with dF = 1 and Y is an affine cone with its vertex removed, or F is compact and connected and dy = 2, where Y is ℂ, the affine quadric Q2, ℙ2 — Q (with Q a quadric curve) or a homogeneous holomorphic * -bundle over an affine cone minus its vertex which is itself an algebraic principal bundle or which admits a two-to-one covering that is.