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Robert Laterveer

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Correspondences and singular varieties

What is generally known as the "Bloch--Srinivas method" consists of decomposing the diagonal of a smooth projective variety, and then considering the action of correspondences in cohomology. In this note, we observe that this same method can also be extended to singular and quasi--projective varieties. We give two applications of this observation: the first is a version of Mumford's theorem, the second is concerned with the Hodge conjecture for singular varieties.

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Surjectivity of cycle maps for singular varieties

A theorem of Jannsen asserts that if a smooth projective variety has injective cycle class maps, it has surjective cycle class maps. The object of this note is to present a version of Jannsen's theorem for singular quasi--projective varieties.

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A brief note concerning hard Lefschetz for Chow groups

We formulate a conjectural hard Lefschetz property for Chow groups, and prove this in some special cases: roughly speaking, for varieties with finite-dimensional motive, and for varieties whose self-product has vanishing middle-dimensional Griffiths group. An appendix includes related statements that follow from results of Vial.

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Constraints on counterexamples to the Casas-Alvero conjecture, and a verification in degree 12

In a first (theoretical) part of this paper, we prove a number of constraints on hypothetical counterexamples to the Casas-Alvero conjecture, building on ideas of Graf von Bothmer, Labs, Schicho and van de Woestijne that were recently reinterpreted by Draisma and de Jong in terms of $p$-adic valuations. In a second (computational) part, we present ideas improving upon Diaz-Toca and Gonzalez-Vega's Gröbner basis approach to the Casas-Alvero conjecture. One application is an extension of the proof of Graf von Bothmer et al. to the cases $5p^k$, $6p^k$ and $7p^k$ (that is, for each of these cases, we elaborate the finite list of primes $p$ for which their proof is not applicable). Finally, by combining both parts, we settle the Casas-Alvero conjecture in degree 12 (the smallest open case).

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Constraints on hypothetical counterexamples to the Casas-Alvero conjecture

The Casas-Alvero conjecture states: if a complex univariate polynomial has a common root with each of its derivatives, then it has a unique root. We show that hypothetical counterexamples must have at least 5 different roots. The first case where the conjecture is not known is in degree 12. We study the case of degree 12, and more generally degree p+1, where p is a prime number. While we don't come closing to solving the conjecture in degree 12, we present several further constraints that counterexamples would have to satisfy.

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K-theory of simplicial toric varieties

This paper has been withdrawn. Theorem 2.1 of the paper is false, as it contradicts a result of Srinvas (Crelle's J. v.381, 1987). The error in our proof is in the construction of a functor in Claim 2. What we construct does not preserve composition of functions, so it is not a functor.

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