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A. Libgober

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arXiv2026

Fundamental groups of the complements to reducible curves on smooth surfaces with restricted classes of components

We classify equisingular families of pencils of curves on smooth simply connected projective surfaces whose dual varieties have degree at most 6, and which contain sufficiently large number of members which irreducible components are either hyperplane sections or irreducible components of hyperplane sections. As a consequence, we describe the fundamental groups of complements to curves on such surfaces whose irreducible components satisfy the above condition and whose fundamental groups admit an essential surjection onto a free group of rank greater than 6.

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arXiv2025

Families of singular algebraic varieties that are rationally elliptic spaces

We discuss families of hypersurfaces with isolated singularities in projective space with the property that the sum of the ranks of the rational homotopy and the homology groups is finite. They represent infinitely many distinct homotopy types with all hypersurfaces having a nef canonical or anti-canonical class. In the appendix we show that such an infinite family of smooth rationally elliptic 3-folds does not exist.

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arXiv2021

Complements to ample divisors and Singularities

The paper reviews recent developments in the study of Alexander invariants of quasi-projective manifolds using methods of singularity theory. Several results in topology of the complements to singular plane curves and hypersurfaces in projective space extended to the case of curves on simply connected smooth projective surfaces.

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arXiv2018

Strata of discriminantal arrangements

We give an explicit description of the multiplicities of codimension two strata of discriminantal arrangements introduced by Manin and Schechtman. As applications, we discuss the connection of these results with properties of Gale transform and we calculate the fundamental groups of the complements to discriminantal arrangements.

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arXiv2017

Albanese varieties of cyclic covers of the projective plane and orbifold pencils

The paper studies a relation between fundamental group of the complement to a plane singular curve and the orbifold pencils containing it. The main tool is the use of Albanese varieties of cyclic covers ramified along such curves. Our results give sufficient conditions for a plane singular curve to belong to an orbifold pencil, i.e. a pencil of plane curves with multiple fibers inducing a map onto an orbifold curve whose orbifold fundamental group is non trivial. We construct an example of a cyclic cover of the projective plane which is an abelian surface isomorphic to the Jacobian of a curve of genus 2 illustrating the extent to which these conditions are necessary.

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arXiv2017

Elliptic genus of singular algebraic varieties and quotients

We discuss the basic properties of various versions of two variable elliptic genus with special attention to the equivariant elliptic genus. The main applications are to the elliptic genera attached to non-compact GITs, including the elliptic genera of Witten's phases on $N=2$ theories.

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arXiv2014

Albanese varieties of abelian covers

We show that Albanese varieties of abelian covers of projective plane are isogenous to product of isogeny components of abelian varieties associated with singularities of the ramification locus. In particular Albanese varieties of abelian covers of projective plane ramified over arrangements of lines and uniformized by unit ball are isogenous to a product of Jacobians of Fermat curves. Periodicity of the sequence of (semi-abelian) Albanese varieties of unramified cyclic covers of complements to a plane singular curve is shown.

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arXiv2014

Elliptic genus of phases of N=2 theories

We discuss an algebro-geometric description of Witten's phases of N=2 theories and propose a definition of their elliptic genus provided some conditions on singularities of the phases are met. For Landau-Ginzburg phase one recovers elliptic genus of LG models proposed in physics literature in early 90s. For certain transitions between phases we derive invariance of elliptic genus from an equivariant form of McKay correspondence for elliptic genus. As special cases one obtains Landau-Giznburg/Calabi-Yau correspondence for elliptic genus of weighted homogeneous potentials as well as certain hybrid/CY correspondences.

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arXiv2013

On Mordell-Weil group of isotrivial abelian varieties over function fields

We show that the Mordell Weil rank of an isotrivial abelian variety with a cyclic holonomy depends only on the fundamental group of the complement to the discriminant provided the discriminant has singularities in the introduced here CM class. This class of singularities includes all unibranched plane curves singularities. As a corollary we give a family of simple Jacobians over field of rational functions in two variable for which the Mordell Weil rank is arbitrary large.

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arXiv2012

Depth of cohomology support loci for quasi-projective varieties via orbifold pencils

The present paper describes a relation between the quotient of the fundamental group of a smooth quasi-projective variety by its second commutator and the existence of maps to orbifold curves. It extends previously studied cases when the target was a smooth curve. In the case when the quasi-projective variety is a complement to a plane algebraic curve this provides new relations between the fundamental group, the equation of the curve, and the existence of polynomial solutions to certain equations generalizing Pell's equation. These relations are formulated in terms of the depth which is an invariant of the characters of the fundamental group discussed in detail here.

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arXiv2011

Depth of characters of curve complements and orbifold pencils

The present work is a user's guide to the results of a previous paper by the second and third authors, where a description of the space of characters of a quasi-projective variety was given in terms of global quotient orbifold pencils. Below we consider the case of plane curve complements and hyperplane arrangements. In particular, an infinite family of curves exhibiting characters of any torsion and depth~3 will be discussed. Also, in the context of line arrangements, it will be shown how geometric tools, such as the existence of orbifold pencils, can replace the group theoretical computations via fundamental groups when studying characters of finite order, specially order two. Finally, we revisit an Alexander-equivalent Zariski pair considered in the literature and show how the existence of such pencils distinguishes both curves.

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arXiv2011

Mordell-Weil groups of elliptic threefolds and the Alexander module of plane curves

We show that the degree of the Alexander polynomial of an irreducible plane algebraic curve with nodes and cusps as the only singularities does not exceed ${5 \over 3}d-2$ where $d$ is the degree of the curve. We also show that the Alexander polynomial $Δ_C(t)$ of an irreducible curve $C=\{F=0\}\subset \mathbb P^2$ whose singularities are nodes and cusps is non-trivial if and only if there exist homogeneous polynomials $f$, $g$, and $h$ such that $f^3+g^2+Fh^6=0$. This is obtained as a consequence of the correspondence, described here, between Alexander polynomials and ranks of Mordell-Weil groups of certain threefolds over function fields. All results also are extended to the case of reducible curves and Alexander polynomials $Δ_{C,ε}(t)$ corresponding to surjections $ε: π_1(\mathbb P^2\setminus C_0 \cup C) \rightarrow \mathbb Z$, where $C_0$ is a line at infinity. In addition, we provide a detailed description of the collection of relations of $F$ as above in terms of the multiplicities of the roots of $Δ_{C,ε}(t)$. This generalization is made in the context of a larger class of singularities i.e. those which lead to rational orbifolds of elliptic type.

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arXiv2010

On combinatorial invariance of the cohomology of Milnor fiber of arrangements and Catalan equation over function field

We discuss combinatorial invariance of the betti numbers of the Milnor fiber for arrangements of lines with points of multiplicity at most three and describe a link between this problem and enumeration of solutions of the Catalan equation over function field in the case when its coefficients are products of linear forms and the equation defines an elliptic curve.

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arXiv2009

Elliptic genera, real algebraic varieties and quasi-Jacobi forms

The first part surveys the push forward formula for elliptic class and various applications obtained in the papers by L.Borisov and the author. In the remaining part we discuss the ring of quasi-Jacobi forms which allow to characterize the functions which are the elliptic genera of almost complex manifolds and extension of Ochanine elliptic genus to certain singular real algebraic varieties.

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arXiv2008

Higher elliptic genera

We show that elliptic classes introduced in our earlier paper for spaces with infinite fundamental groups yield Novikov's type higher elliptic genera which are invariants of K-equivalence. This include, as a special case, the birational invariance of higher Todd classes studied recently by J.Rosenberg and J.Block-S.Weinberger. We also prove the modular properties of these genera, show that they satisfy a McKay correspondence, and consider their twist by discrete torsion.

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arXiv2008

Non vanishing loci of Hodge numbers of local systems

We show that closures of families of unitary local systems on quasiprojective varieties for which the dimension of a graded component of Hodge filtration has a constant value can be identified with a finite union of polytopes. We also present a local version of the theorem. This yields the "Hodge decomposition" of the set of unitary local systems with a non-vanishing cohomology extending Hodge decomposition of characteristic varieties of links of plane curves studied by the author earlier. We consider a twisted version of the characteristic varieties generalizing the twisted Alexander polynomials. Several explicit calculations for complements to arrangements are made.

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arXiv2008

Cohomology of bundles on homological Hopf manifold

We discuss the properties of complex manifolds having rational homology of $S^1 \times S^{2n-1}$ including those constructed by Hopf, Kodaira and Brieskorn-van de Ven. We extend certain previously known vanishing properties of cohomology of bundles on such manifolds.As an application we consider degeneration of Hodge-deRham spectral sequence in this non Kahler setting.

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