arXiv subjects

Franco Giovenzana

Publications and source records attributed to Franco Giovenzana.

13 recordsLinked to original sources

arXiv2026

Stability conditions supported on Lefschetz classes

Recently, C. Li constructed stability conditions on the derived categories of all smooth complex projective varieties. These stability conditions satisfy the support property of Kontsevich-Soibelman with respect to the lattice in cohomology generated by powers of an ample class. We extend Li's results to construct stability conditions with full support on Lefschetz type varieties whose algebraic cohomology is generated by divisor classes. This includes all smooth complex projective varieties of dimension at most 3 and smooth projective toric varieties.

math.AG↗

arXiv2026

Lines, Twisted Cubics on Cubic Fourfolds, and the Monodromy of the Voisin Map

For a general cubic fourfold $Y$ with associated Fano variety of lines $ F $, we show that the monodromy group of the finite degree 16 rational Voisin self-map $ψ\colon F \dashrightarrow F$ is maximal. To achieve this, we investigate the intriguing interplay between $ ψ$ and the fixed locus of the antisymplectic involution on the LLSvS variety $ Z $, examined via the degree 6 Voisin map $F \times F \dashrightarrow Z $.

math.AG↗

arXiv2025

New components of Hilbert schemes of points and 2-step ideals

This paper presents new examples of elementary and non-elementary irreducible components of the Hilbert scheme of points and its nested variants. The results are achieved via a careful analysis of the deformations of a class of finite colength ideals that are introduced in this paper and referred to as 2-step ideals. The most notable reducibility results pertain to the 4-nested Hilbert scheme of points on a smooth surface, the reducibility of $\text{Hilb}^{3,7}\mathbb{A}^4$, and a method to detect a large number of generically reduced elementary components. To demonstrate the feasibility of this approach, we provide an explicit description of 215 new generically reduced elementary components in dimensions 4, 5 and 6.

math.AG↗

arXiv2025

Non-existence of Enriques manifolds from OG10 type manifolds

We use the LLV algebra to describe the action of a finite order automorphism on the total cohomology of a manifold of OG10 type. As an application, we prove that no Enriques manifolds arise as étale quotients of hyper-Kähler manifolds of OG10 type. This answers a question raised by Pacienza and Sarti.

math.AG↗

arXiv2025

Coble duality for Jacobian Kummer fourfolds

We study projective models of generalized Kummer fourfolds via O'Grady's theta groups and the classical Coble cubic. More precisely, we establish a duality between two singular models of the generalized Kummer fourfold of a Jacobian abelian surface. We also give projective models for singular Jacobian Kummer varieties of arbitrary dimension. Along the way, we also construct a first non-natural involution on the Hilbert square of a Jacobian surface. In the appendix, we study singularities of secants of arbitrary varieties at identifiable points, following Choi, Lacini, Park and Sheridan.

math.AG↗

arXiv2024

Unexpected but recurrent phenomena for Quot and Hilbert schemes of points

We investigate some aspects of the geometry of two classical generalisations of the Hilbert schemes of points. Precisely, we show that parity conjecture for $\text{Quot}_r^d\mathbb{A}^3$ already fails for $d=8$ and $r=2$ and that lots of the elementary components of the nested Hilbert schemes of points on smooth quasi-projective varieties of dimension at least 4 are generically non-reduced. We also deduce that nested Hilbert schemes of points on smooth surfaces have generically non-reduced components. Finally, we give an infinite family of elementary components of the classical Hilbert schemes of points.

math.AG↗

arXiv2024

O'Grady tenfolds as moduli spaces of sheaves

We give a lattice-theoretic characterization for a manifold of $\mathrm{OG}10$ type to be birational to some moduli space of (twisted) sheaves on a K3 surface. We apply it to the Li-Pertusi-Zhao variety of $\mathrm{OG}10$ type associated to any smooth cubic fourfold. Moreover we determine when a birational transformation is induced by an automorphism of the K3 surface and we use this to classify all induced birational symplectic involutions.

math.AG↗

arXiv2024

A counterexample to the parity conjecture

Let $[Z]\in\text{Hilb}^d \mathbb A^3$ be a zero-dimensional subscheme of the affine three-dimensional complex space of length $d>0$. Okounkov and Pandharipande have conjectured that the dimension of the tangent space of $\text{Hilb}^d \mathbb A^3$ at $[Z]$ and $d$ have the same parity. The conjecture was proven by Maulik, Nekrasov, Okounkov and Pandharipande for points $[Z]$ defined by monomial ideals and very recently by Ramkumar and Sammartano for homogeneous ideals. In this paper we exhibit a family of zero-dimensional schemes in $\text{Hilb}^{12} \mathbb A^3$, which disproves the conjecture in the general non-homogeneous case.

math.AG↗

arXiv2023

On the period of Li, Pertusi and Zhao's symplectic variety

We extend classical results of Perego and Rapagnetta on moduli spaces of sheaves of type OG10 to moduli spaces of Bridgeland semistable objects on the Kuznetsov component of a cubic fourfold. In particular, we determine the period of this class of varieties and use it to understand when they become birational to moduli spaces of sheaves on a K3 surface.

math.AG↗

arXiv2023

Kernels of categorical resolutions of nodal singularities

In this paper we study derived categories of nodal singularities. We show that for all nodal singularities there is a categorical resolution whose kernel is generated by a $2$ or $3$-spherical object, depending on the dimension. We apply this result to the case of nodal cubic fourfolds, where we describe the kernel generator of the categorical resolution as an object in the bounded derived category of the associated degree six K3 surface. This paper originated from one of the problem sessions at the Interactive Workshop and Hausdorff School "Hyperkähler Geometry", Bonn, September 6-10, 2021.

math.AG↗

arXiv2022

Hodge structure of O'Grady's singular moduli spaces

We investigate the Hodge structure of the singular O'Grady's six and ten dimensional examples of irreducible symplectic varieties. In particular, we compute some of their Betti numbers and their Euler characteristic. As consequence, we deduce that these varieties do not have finite quotient singularities answering a question of Bakker and Lehn.

math.AG↗

arXiv2021

On the period of Lehn, Lehn, Sorger, and van Straten's symplectic eightfold

For the irreducible holomorphic symplectic eightfold Z associated to a cubic fourfold Y not containing a plane, we show that a natural Abel-Jacobi map from H^4_prim(Y) to H^2_prim(Z) is a Hodge isometry. We describe the full H^2(Z) in terms of the Mukai lattice of the K3 category A of Y. We give numerical conditions for Z to be birational to a moduli space of sheaves on a K3 surface or to Hilb^4(K3). We propose a conjecture on how to use Z to produce equivalences from A to the derived category of a K3 surface.

math.AG↗

arXiv2020

On the uniruled Voisin divisor on the LLSvS variety

Let $Y$ be a smooth cubic fourfold, $F$ be its Fano variety of lines and $Z$ be its associated LLSvS variety, parametrizing families of twisted cubics and some of their degenerations. In this short note, we show that the divisor of singular cubic surfaces on $Z$ has two irreducible components, one of which coincides with the uniruled branch divisor of a resolution of the Voisin map $F\times F \dashrightarrow Z$.

math.AG↗