Regularity of structure sheaves of varieties with isolated singularities

Let [Formula: see text] be a non-degenerate normal projective variety of codimension [Formula: see text] and degree [Formula: see text] with isolated [Formula: see text]-Gorenstein singularities. We prove that the Castelnuovo–Mumford regularity [Formula: see text], as predicted by the Eisenbud–Goto regularity conjecture. Such a bound fails for general projective varieties by a recent result of McCullough–Peeva. The main techniques are Noma’s classification of non-degenerate projective varieties and Nadel vanishing for multiplier ideals. We also classify the extremal and the next to extremal cases.

A Witt Nadel vanishing theorem for threefolds

In this paper, we establish a vanishing theorem of Nadel type for the Witt multiplier ideals on threefolds over perfect fields of characteristic larger than five. As an application, if a projective normal threefold over $\mathbb{F}_{q}$ is not klt and its canonical divisor is anti-ample, then the number of the rational points on the klt-locus is divisible by $q$.

ALEXANDER POLYNOMIALS OF COMPLEX PROJECTIVE PLANE CURVES

We compute the Alexander polynomial of a nonreduced nonirreducible complex projective plane curve with mutually coprime orders of vanishing along its irreducible components in terms of certain multiplier ideals.