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Maria Chiara Brambilla

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On the dimensions of secant varieties of Segre-Veronese varieties

This paper explores the dimensions of higher secant varieties to Segre-Veronese varieties. The main goal of this paper is to introduce two different inductive techniques. These techniques enable one to reduce the computation of the dimension of the secant variety in a high dimensional case to the computation of the dimensions of secant varieties in low dimensional cases. As an application of these inductive approaches, we will prove non-defectivity of secant varieties of certain two-factor Segre-Veronese varieties. We also use these methods to give a complete classification of defective s-th Segre-Veronese varieties for small s. In the final section, we propose a conjecture about defective two-factor Segre-Veronese varieties.

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Postulation of general quintuple fat point schemes in P^3

We study the postulation of a general union Y of double, triple, quartuple and quintuple points of P^3. In characteristic 0, we prove that Y has good postulation in degree $d\ge 11$. The proof is based on the combination of the Horace differential lemma with a computer-assisted proof. We also classify the exceptions in degree 9 and 10.

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Vector bundles on Fano threefolds of genus 7 and Brill-Noether loci

Given a smooth prime Fano threefold $X$ of genus 7 we consider its homologically projectively dual curve $Γ$ and the natural integral functor $Φ^{!}:D^b(X) \to D^b(Γ)$. We prove that, for $d\geq 6$, $Φ^{!}$ gives a birational map from a component of the moduli scheme $M_X(2,1,d)$ of rank 2 stable sheaves on $X$ with $c_1=1$, $c_2=d$ to a generically smooth $2d-9$-dimensional component of the Brill-Noether variety $W^{2d-11}_{d-5,5d-24}$ of stable vector bundles on $Γ$ of rank $d-5$ and degree $5d-24$ with at least $2d-10$ sections. This map turns out to be an isomorphism for $d=6$, and the moduli space $M_X(2,1,6)$ is fine. For general $X$, this moduli space is a smooth irreducible threefold.

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New examples of defective secant varieties of Segre-Veronese varieties

We prove the existence of defective secant varieties of three-factor and four-factor Segre-Veronese varieties embedded in certain multi-degree. These defective secant varieties were previously unknown and are of importance in the classification of defective secant varieties of Segre-Veronese varieties with three or more factors.

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Moduli spaces of rank 2 ACM bundles on prime Fano threefolds

Given a smooth non-hyperelliptic prime Fano threefold X, we prove the existence of all rank 2 ACM vector bundles on X by deformation of semistable sheaves. We show that these bundles move in generically smooth components of the corresponding moduli space. We give applications to pfaffian representations of quartic threefolds in P^4 and cubic hypersurfaces of a smooth quadric of P^5.

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Rank 2 stable sheaves with odd determinant on Fano threefolds of genus 9

By the description due to Mukai and Iliev, a smooth prime Fano threefold X of genus 9 is associated to a surface P(V), ruled over a smooth plane quartic Gamma. We use Kuznetsov's integral functor to study rank-2 stable sheaves on X with odd determinant. For each c_2 \geq 7, we prove that a component of their moduli space M_X(2,1,c_2) is birational to a Brill-Noether locus of bundles on Gamma having enough sections when twisted by V. Moreover we prove that M_X(2,1,7) is isomorphic to the blowing-up of the Picard variety Pic^2(Gamma) along the curve parametrizing lines contained in X.

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Postulation of general quartuple fat point schemes in P^3

We study the postulation of a general union $Y$ of double, triple, and quartuple points of $\mathbb{P}^3$. We prove that $Y$ has the expected postulation in degree $d\ge 41$, using the Horace differential lemma. We also discuss the cases of low degree with the aid of computer algebra.

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On partial polynomial interpolation

The Alexander-Hirschowitz theorem says that a general collection of $k$ double points in ${\bf P}^n$ imposes independent conditions on homogeneous polynomials of degree $d$ with a well known list of exceptions. We generalize this theorem to arbitrary zero-dimensional schemes contained in a general union of double points. We work in the polynomial interpolation setting. In this framework our main result says that the affine space of polynomials of degree $\le d$ in $n$ variables, with assigned values of any number of general linear combinations of first partial derivatives, has the expected dimension if $d\neq 2$ with only five exceptional cases. If $d=2$ the exceptional cases are fully described.

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On the Alexander-Hirschowitz Theorem

The Alexander-Hirschowitz theorem says that a general collection of $k$ double points in ${\bf P}^n$ imposes independent conditions on homogeneous polynomials of degree $d$ with a well known list of exceptions. Alexander and Hirschowitz completed its proof in 1995, solving a long standing classical problem, connected with the Waring problem for polynomials. We expose a self-contained proof based mainly on previous works by Terracini, Hirschowitz, Alexander and Chandler, with a few simplifications. We claim originality only in the case $d=3$, where our proof is shorter. We end with an account of the history of the work on this problem.

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Cokernel bundles and Fibonacci bundles

We are interested in those bundles $C$ on $\mathbb{P}^N$ which admit a resolution of the form $$ 0 \to \mathbb{C}^s \otimes E \xrightarrowμ \mathbb{C}^t \otimes F \to C \to 0.$$ In this paper we prove that, under suitable conditions on $(E,F)$, a generic bundle with this form is either simple or canonically decomposable. As applications we provide an easy criterion for the stability of such bundles on $\mathbb{P}^2$ and we prove the stability when $E = \mathcal{O}$, $F = \mathcal{O}(1)$ and $C$ is an exceptional bundle on $\mathbb{P}^N$ for $N \geq 2$.

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Semistability of certain bundles on a quintic Calabi-Yau threefold

In the paper ``Chirality change in string theory'', by Douglas and Zhou, the authors give a list of bundles on a quintic Calabi-Yau threefold. Here we prove the semistability of most of these bundles. This provides examples of string theory compactifications which have a different number of generations and can be connected.

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Simplicity of generic Steiner bundles

We prove that a generic Steiner bundle E is simple if and only if the Euler characteristic of the endomorphism bundle of E is less or equal to 1. In particular we show that either E is exceptional or it satisfies the following inequality t\leq(\frac{n+1+\sqrt((n+1)^2-4)}{2})s.

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