Given a smooth, projective variety $X$ and an effective divisor $D\,\subseteq\, X$, it is well-known that the (topological) obstruction to the deformation of the fundamental class of $D$ as a Hodge class, lies in ...

Let $\pi_1:\mathcal{X} \to \Delta$ be a flat family of smooth, projective curves of genus $g \ge 2$, degenerating to an irreducible nodal curve $X_0$ with exactly one node. Fix an invertible sheaf $\mathcal{L}$ on $\mathcal{X}$ ...

Let K be the fraction field of a Henselian discrete valuation ring with algebraically closed residue field k. In this article we give a sufficient criterion for a projective variety over such a field to have index 1.

For d ≥ 4, the Noether-Lefschetz locus NLd parametrizes smooth, degree d sur- faces in P3 with Picard number at least 2. A conjecture of Harris states that there are only finitely many irreducible components of the ...

A theorem of Weil and Atiyah says that a holomorphic vector bundle $E$ on a compact Riemann surface $X$ admits a holomorphic connection if and only if the degree of every direct summand of $E$ is zero. Fix a finite subset ...

In this article, we study the Hilbert scheme of effective divisors in smooth hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{P}^3$, a topic not extensively studied. We prove that there exists such effective divisors $D$ satisfying the property: ...

Classically, there exists a determinant map from the moduli space of semi-stable sheaves on a smooth, projective variety to the Picard scheme. Unfortunately, if the underlying variety is singular, then such a map does not ...

In [Kol13] Kollár defined $i$-th index of a proper scheme over a field. In this note we study how index behaves under specialization, in any characteristic.

Let $E_G$ be a holomorphic principal $G$--bundle on a compact connected Riemann surface $X$, where $G$ is a connected reductive complex affine algebraic group. Fix a finite subset $D\, \subset\, X$, and for each $x\,\in\, ...