Matteo Altavilla | Searcharxiv

arXiv2019

Moduli spaces on the Kuznetsov component of Fano threefolds of index 2

General hyperplane sections of a Fano threefold $Y$ of index 2 and Picard rank 1 are del Pezzo surfaces, and their Picard group is related to a root system. To the corresponding roots, we associate objects in the Kuznetsov component of $Y$ and investigate their moduli spaces, using the stability condition constructed by Bayer, Lahoz, Macr\`i, and Stellari, and the Abel--Jacobi map. We identify a subvariety of the moduli space isomorphic to $Y$ itself, and as an application we prove a (refined) categorical Torelli theorem for general quartic double solids.

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arXiv2019

Bridgeland wall-crossing for some Simpson moduli spaces on $\mathbb{P}^1 \times \mathbb{P}^1$

We investigate the wall-crossing behavior as Bridgeland moduli spaces for some Simpson moduli spaces of Gieseker-semistable torsion sheaves on $\mathbb{P}^1\times \mathbb{P}^1$ with linear Hilbert polynomial. In particular, we recover some of the birational transformations of these spaces described by Maican and Chung-Moon as wall-crossing maps in certain slices of $Stab(\mathbb{P}^1\times \mathbb{P}^1)$.

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arXiv2014

Notes on stochastic (bio)-logic gates: the role of allosteric cooperativity

Recent experimental breakthroughs have finally allowed to implement in-vitro reaction kinetics (the so called {\em enzyme based logic}) which code for two-inputs logic gates and mimic the stochastic AND (and NAND) as well as the stochastic OR (and NOR). This accomplishment, together with the already-known single-input gates (performing as YES and NOT), provides a logic base and paves the way to the development of powerful biotechnological devices. The investigation of this field would enormously benefit from a self-consistent, predictive, theoretical framework. Here we formulate a complete statistical mechanical description of the Monod-Wyman-Changeaux allosteric model for both single and double ligand systems, with the purpose of exploring their practical capabilities to express logical operators and/or perform logical operations. Mixing statistical mechanics with logics, and quantitatively our findings with the available biochemical data, we successfully revise the concept of cooperativity (and anti-cooperativity) for allosteric systems, with particular emphasis on its computational capabilities, the related ranges and scaling of the involved parameters and its differences with classical cooperativity (and anti-cooperativity).

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