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Matthias Paulsen

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arXiv2024

Verbal ideals and unobstructed complex parallelisable nilmanifolds

We show that a compact complex parallelisable nilmanifold has unobstructed deformations if and only if its associated Lie algebra satisfies a reality condition and is a free Lie algebra in a variety of Lie algebras, that is, defined by a verbal ideal in a free Lie algebra. We provide a partial classification of verbal ideals and show that there are finitely many such Lie algebras up to dimension 19, whereas infinite families start to appear in dimension 20. As a consequence, there are finitely many complex homotopy types of unobstructed complex parallelisable nilmanifolds up to dimension 19, and infinitely many in dimension 20.

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arXiv2022

On the degree of algebraic cycles on hypersurfaces

Let $X\subset\mathbb P^4$ be a very general hypersurface of degree $d\ge6$. Griffiths and Harris conjectured in 1985 that the degree of every curve $C\subset X$ is divisible by $d$. Despite substantial progress by Kollár in 1991, this conjecture is not known for a single value of $d$. Building on Kollár's method, we prove this conjecture for infinitely many $d$, the smallest one being $d=5005$. The set of these degrees $d$ has positive density. We also prove a higher-dimensional analogue of this result and construct smooth hypersurfaces defined over $\mathbb Q$ that satisfy the conjecture.

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arXiv2020

The construction problem for Hodge numbers modulo an integer in positive characteristic

Let $k$ be an algebraically closed field of positive characteristic. For any integer $m \geq 2$, we show that the Hodge numbers of a smooth projective $k$-variety can take on any combination of values modulo $m$, subject only to Serre duality. In particular, there are no non-trivial polynomial relations between the Hodge numbers.

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arXiv2020

On the rationality of quadric surface bundles

For any standard quadric surface bundle over $\mathbb P^2$, we show that the locus of rational fibres is dense in the moduli space.

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arXiv2019

The construction problem for Hodge numbers modulo an integer

For any positive integer m and any dimension n, we show that any n-dimensional Hodge diamond with values in Z/mZ is attained by the Hodge numbers of an n-dimensional smooth complex projective variety. As a corollary, there are no polynomial relations among the Hodge numbers of n-dimensional smooth complex projective varieties besides the ones induced by the Hodge symmetries, which answers a question raised by Kollár in 2012.

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arXiv2015

Construction of normal numbers with respect to Generalized Lüroth Series from equidistributed sequences

Generalized Lüroth series generalize $b$-adic representations as well as Lüroth series. Almost all real numbers are normal, but it is not easy to construct one. In this paper, a new construction of normal numbers with respect to Generalized Lüroth Series (including those with an infinite digit set) is given. Our method concatenates the beginnings of the expansions of an arbitrary equidistributed sequence.

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