Seminario di geometria algebrica e aritmetica di Pisa



Seminari 2019/20



Mercoledì 24 giugno 2020, su Google Meet

  • 17:00--18:00 Tony Pantev (Philadelphia): Symplectic structures on moduli of Stokes data

    I will discuss the notion of shifted symplectic structures along the stalks of constructible sheaves of derived stacks on stratified spaces. I will describe a general pushforward theorem producing relative symplectic forms and will explain explicit techniques for computing such forms. As an application I will describe a universal construction of Poisson structures on derived moduli of local systems on smooth varieties and will explain how symplectic leaves arise from fixing irregular types and local formal monodromies at infinity. This is a joint work with Dima Arinkin and Bertrand Toën.



    Mercoledì 17 giugno 2020, su Google Meet

  • 18:00--19:00 Burt Totaro (Los Angeles): The Hilbert scheme of infinite affine space

    I will discuss the Hilbert scheme of d points in affine n-space, with some examples. This space has many irreducible components for n at least 3 and is poorly understood. Nonetheless, in the limit where n goes to infinity, we show that the Hilbert scheme of d points in infinite affine space has a very simple homotopy type. In fact, it has the A^1-homotopy type of the infinite Grassmannian BGL(d-1). Many questions remain. (Joint with Marc Hoyois, Joachim Jelisiejew, Denis Nardin, Maria Yakerson.)



    Mercoledì 27 maggio 2020, su Google Meet

  • 17:00--18:00 Benjamin Antieau (Chicago): Derived invariants in characteristic p

    I will discuss joint work with Daniel Bragg on the identification of derived invariants of smooth projective varieties in characteristic p, especially using information from crystalline cohomology.



    Mercoledì 6 maggio 2020, su Google Meet

  • 17:00--18:00 János Kollár (Princeton): What determines a variety?

    A scheme X is a topological space -- which we denote by |X| -- and a sheaf of rings on the open subsets of |X|. We study the following natural but seldom considered questions. How to read off properties of X from |X|? Does |X| alone determine X? Joint work with Max Lieblich, Martin Olsson, and Will Sawin.

  • Slides from the seminar

    Mercoledì 4 marzo 2020, Dipartimento di Matematica, Aula Magna

    Il seminario di David Rydh è stato annullato. Al suo posto parlerà Mattia Talpo.

  • 15:00--16:00 Mattia Talpo (Pisa): Topological realization over C((t)) via Kato-Nakayama spaces

    I will report on some joint work with Piotr Achinger, about a “Betti realization” functor for varieties over the formal punctured disk Spec C((t)), i.e. defined by polynomials with coefficients in the field of formal Laurent series in one variable over the complex numbers. We give two constructions producing the same result, and one of them is via “good models” over the power series ring C[[t]] and the “Kato-Nakayama” construction in logarithmic geometry, that I will review during the talk.

  • 16:00--16:30 Coffee break (yummy)

  • 16:30--17:30 Roberto Pirisi (Stockholm): Brauer groups of moduli of hyperelliptic curves, via cohomological invariants

    We use the theory of cohomological invariants for algebraic stacks to completely describe the Brauer group of the moduli stacks H_g of genus g hyperellitic curves over fields of characteristic zero, and the prime-to-char(k) part in positive characteristic. It turns out that the (non-trivial part of the) group is generated by cyclic algebras, by an element coming from a map to the classifying stack of étale algebras of degree 2g+2, and when g is odd by the Brauer-Severi fibration induced by taking the quotient of the universal curve by the hyperelliptic involution. This paints a richer picture than in the case of elliptic curves, where all non-trivial elements come from cyclic algebras. This is joint work with Andrea di Lorenzo.

    Mercoledì 19 febbraio 2020, Dipartimento di Matematica, Aula Magna

  • 15:00--16:00 Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène (Orsay): Codimension two cycles and unramified third cohomology for certain products of two varieties

    We investigate the integral Tate conjecture for 1-cycles on the product of a curve and a surface over a finite field, under the assumption that the surface is geometrically CH_0-trivial. By this we mean that over any algebraically closed field extension, the degree map on zero-dimensional Chow group of the surface is an isomorphism. This applies to Enriques surfaces. When the Néron-Severi group has no torsion, we recover earlier results of A. Pirutka. This is joint work with Federico Scavia.

  • 16:00--16:30 Coffee break (yummy)

  • 16:30--17:30 Klaus Altmann (Berlino): Displaying the cohomology of toric line bundles

    Line bundles L on projective toric varieties can be understood as formal differences of convex polyhedra in the character lattice. We show how it is possible to use this language for understanding the cohomology of L by studying the set-theoretic difference . (This is joint work with Jarek Buczinski, Lars Kastner, David Ploog, and Anna-Lena Winz.)

    Mercoledì 22 gennaio 2020, Dipartimento di Matematica, Aula Magna

  • 14:30--15:30 Andrei Neguț (Boston): The Beauville-Voisin conjecture for Hilb(K3) and the Virasoro algebra

    We give a geometric representation theory proof of a mild version of the Beauville-Voisin Conjecture for Hilbert schemes of K3 surfaces, namely the injectivity of the cycle map restricted to the subring of Chow generated by tautological classes. Our approach involves lifting formulas of Lehn and Li-Qin-Wang from cohomology to Chow groups, and using them to solve the problem by invoking the irreducibility criteria of Virasoro algebra modules, due to Feigin-Fuchs. Joint work with Davesh Maulik.

  • 15:30--16:00 Coffee break (yummy)

  • 16:00--17:00 Francesco Sala (Pisa): Cohomological Hall algebras

    The present talk is a gentle introduction to the theory of cohomological Hall algebras and their relevance in the study of the topology of moduli spaces, such as the Hilbert schemes of points on a smooth surface.

    Mercoledì 4 dicembre 2019, Dipartimento di Matematica, Aula Magna

  • 14:30--15:30 Joseph Ayoub (Zurigo): Anabelian representations of the motivic Galois group

    I will discuss some ongoing work aiming at studying the action of the motivic Galois group on fundamental groups of algebraic varieties conveniently completed.

  • 15:30--16:00 Coffee break (yummy)

  • 16:00--17:00 Federico Binda (Milano): Triangulated categories of log-motives over a field

    In this talk, I will give an overview of the construction of a triangulated category of motives for log smooth log schemes over a field k, based on the notion of finite log correspondence, in analogy to Voevodsky’s DM(k). The affine line is replaced in this context by the “cube” (P^1, \infty), i.e. the log scheme P^1_1 with log structure coming from the divisor at infinity, as one does in the theory of motives with modulus à la Kahn-Saito-Yamazaki. This is a joint work in progress with Doosung Park (Zurich) and Paul Arne Ostvaer (Oslo).

    Mercoledì 27 novembre 2019, Dipartimento di Matematica, Aula Magna

  • 14:30--15:30 Piotr Achinger (Varsovia): Canonical liftings and log structures

    In the context of mirror symmetry, the moduli space of complex Calabi-Yau varieties acquires canonical local coordinates near a "large complex structure limit point". In characteristic p geometry, the formal deformation space of an ordinary Calabi-Yau variety tends to have such canonical coordinates ("Serre-Tate parameters") as well. As observed e.g. by Jan Stienstra, these situations are formally very similar, and one would like to compare the two when both make sense. A framework for doing this could be supplied by a version of Serre-Tate theory for log Calabi-Yau varieties. In my talk, I will describe a first step in this direction; a construction of canonical liftings modulo p^2 of certain log schemes. I will link this to a question of Keel describing global moduli of maximal log Calabi-Yau pairs.

  • 15:30--16:00 Coffee break (yummy)

  • 16:00--17:00 Gabriele Vezzosi (Firenze): Decomposition along a non-linear flag

    We define a non-commutative version of the punctured formal neighbourhood in algebraic geometry, and apply this construction to give decompositions of the (derived) stacks Coh^-(X), Perf(X) and Bun_G(X) along a non-linear flag of sub-stacks of X. This is joint work with B. Hennion and M. Porta. Time permitting, I will also sketch an application to the construction of Hecke operators associated to a non-linear flag on a surface.



    Mercoledì 23 ottobre 2019, Dipartimento di Matematica, Aula Magna

  • 14:30--15:30 Barbara Fantechi (Trieste): On the motive of zero-dimensional Quot schemes on a curve

    This is a report on joint work with Bagnarol and Perroni, available at arxiv:1907.00826. For any locally free coherent sheaf on a fixed smooth projective curve, we study the class, in the Grothendieck ring of varieties, of the Quot scheme that parametrizes zero-dimensional quotients of the sheaf. We prove that this class depends only on the rank of the sheaf and on the length of the quotients. As an application, we obtain an explicit formula that expresses it in terms of the symmetric products of the curve.

    If time allows, we will discuss further work of Andrea Ricolfi extending the result from smooth curves to arbitrary smooth projective manifolds, and its application to Bagnarol's thesis (2019) on the Hodge motive of genus zero stable maps to Grassmannians.

  • 15:30--16:00 Coffee break (yummy)

  • 16:00--17:00 Lothar Göttsche (Trieste): Vafa-Witten formulas and generalizations

    25 years ago Vafa and Witten predicted generating functions for the Euler numbers of the moduli spaces of sheaves on algebraic surfaces. In this talk I review joint work with Martijn Kool to interpret and check these predictions in terms of virtual Euler numbers, and to extend them to finer invariants like chi_y genus. Time permitting I will also mention recent results on Chern numbers of tautological sheaves, and Verlinde type formulas.

    Mercoledì 2 ottobre 2019, Dipartimento di Matematica, Aula Magna

  • 15:00--16:00 Julie Rana (Appleton): Constructing T-singular surfaces

    Semi-log-canonical surfaces with ample canonical divisor are called stable. Their moduli space is a natural compactification (the KSBA compactification) of the Gieseker moduli space of canonical models of surfaces of general type. Among the singularities that are allowed in stable surfaces, we have cyclic quotient singularities 1/m(1; q) and a special role is played by those with m =dn^2, q=dna-1 gcd(n; a) = 1. These singularities together with all du Val singularities are called T-singularities. We give bounds on such singularities and describe some constructions.

  • 16:00--16:30 Coffee break (yummy)

  • 16:30--17:30 Sönke Rollenske (Marburg): Smoothing of a reducible I-surface

    The moduli space of stable surfaces is a modular compactification of the Gieseker moduli space of (canonical models of) surfaces of general type but has components consisting solely of non-smoothable surfaces. I will construct a smoothing of a particular reducible surface X with K^2 = 1 and p_g = 2, and thus show that the family of such surfaces is indeed contained in the closure of the smooth locus. X is the union of a singular K3 surface and a singular Enriques surface, glued along an elliptic curve.

    Mercoledì 12 giugno 2019, Dipartimento di Matematica, Aula Magna

  • 15:00--16:00 Michel Brion (Grenoble): The universal affine extension of an abelian variety

    Every abelian variety A over a field k admits a universal extension by an affine k-group scheme. The talk will present a construction of this universal affine extension (first due to Serre when k is algebraically closed of characteristic zero) and discuss its structure, with applications to the category of homogeneous vector bundles over A.

  • 16:00--16:30 Coffee break (yummy)

  • 16:30--17:30 Fabio Tonini (Firenze): Crystalline fundamental group and Berthelot's conjecture for isocrystals

    In the talk I will introduce the crystalline site of a variety in positive characteristic, discuss the notion of crystals and isocrystals over it and define its crystalline fundamental group. I will then discuss Berthelot's conjecture and its relation with the exactness of the homotopy sequence of a fibration.

    Mercoledì 3 aprile 2019, Dipartimento di Matematica, Aula Magna

  • 15:00--16:00 Arnaud Beauville (Nizza): Vector bundles on Fano threefolds and K3 surfaces

    Let X be a Fano threefold, and let S be a smooth anticanonical surface (hence a K3) lying in X. Any moduli space of simple vector bundles on S carries a holomorphic symplectic structure. Following an idea of Tyurin, I will show that in some cases those vector bundles which come from X form a Lagrangian subvariety of the moduli space. Most of the talk will be devoted to concrete examples of this situation.

  • 16:00--16:30 Coffee break (yummy)

  • 16:30--17:30 Luca Migliorini (Bologna): Supports of the Hitchin fibration on the reduced locus

    For the abstract click here.