Berlin-Hannover Algebraic Geometry Workshop


Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

11th - 12th May 2023

Speakers

Simon Brandhorst (Saarbrücken) Thomas Dedieu (Toulouse)
Soheyla Feyzbakhsh (Imperial College London) Alice Garbagnati (Milano)
Christian Gleissner (Bayreuth) Yoav Len (St. Andrews)
Andrés Rojas (HU Berlin) Sara Torelli (Hannover)

Organizers

Angela Ortega (HU Berlin) Matthias Schütt (Hannover)

Schedule

Thursday, 11th May 2023
10:30 - 11:30Christian Gleissner
Rigid four-dimensional torus quotients
12:00 - 13:00Yoav Len
The Geometry of Prym Varieties
14:30 - 15:30Soheyla Feyzbakhsh
Brill-Noether-type problems on curves through Bridgeland stability conditions
16:00 - 17:00Andrés Rojas
Cohomological rank functions on abelian surfaces via Bridgeland stability
Friday, 12th May 2023
09:30 - 10:30Simon Brandhorst
K3 surfaces of zero entropy
11:00 - 12:00Thomas Dedieu
Moduli of curves on Enriques surfaces and Enriques-Fano varieties
13:30 - 14:30Alice Garbagnati
Bidouble covers of rational surfaces and Hodge structures of K3 type
15:00 - 16:00Sara Torelli
Correspondences acting on constant cycle curves

Abstracts

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Simon Brandhorst K3 surfaces of zero entropy

(Joint work with Giacomo Mezzedimi) Automorphisms of complex surfaces come in 3 flavours:
1) The orbit of every point is finite.
2) There exists a point with an infinite orbit, but no orbit is Zariski dense.
3) There is a Zariski dense orbit.
In the first and second case the automorphism has zero topological entropy while in the last case it is of positive entropy. We say that a surface has zero entropy if every of its automorphisms has zero entropy.
In this talk we classify K3 surfaces of zero entropy yet with infinite automorphism group, equivalently, K3 surfaces which have a unique elliptic fibration whose Jacobian has infinite Mordell-Weil group.

Thomas Dedieu Moduli of curves on Enriques surfaces and Enriques-Fano varieties

I will give the respective dimensions of the general fibers of the forgetful map from the moduli space of pairs (S,C) where C is a smooth curve on an Enriques surface S to the moduli space of curves. The irreducible components of the source moduli space correspond to those of the moduli space of polarized Enriques surfaces, which may be identified by means of the so-called simple isotropic decomposition of the polarization. I will focus on the relations between these dimensions and the existence of higher dimensional varieties having Enriques surfaces as linear sections, and pose a number of open problems. This is joint work with C. Ciliberto, C. Galati, and A. L. Knutsen.

Soheyla Feyzbakhsh Brill-Noether-type problems on curves through Bridgeland stability conditions

In this talk, we will discuss two different methods for studying classical Brill-Noether-type problems on curves using Bridgeland stability conditions on triangulated categories. One approach involves embedding the curve into special types of surfaces, such as K3 surfaces. The other approach uses the bounded derived category of coherent systems. The latter is joint work in progress with Angela Ortega.

Alice Garbagnati Bidouble covers of rational surfaces and Hodge structures of K3 type

A bidouble coveris a Galois cover whose Galois group is the Klein group. If \(f:X\rightarrow Y\) is a bidouble cover there exist 3 intermediate double covers of \(Y\). We require that these intermediate double covers are either K3 surfaces or surfaces with \(h^{2,0}=0\). In this case the Hodge structure on \(H^2(X,\mathbb{Z})\) splits into the direct sum of Hodge substructures of K3 type (this has strong consequences, for example on the Mumford Tate conjecture and on the infinitesimal Torelli property for these surfaces).
Under the condition that \(X\) is smooth and \(Y\) is minimal and rational, we classified the surfaces obtained as above. We will describe these surfaces and we will present generalizations of the previous construction, obtained considering iterated bidouble covers or allowing some singularities.
The talk is based on a joint work with M. Penegini.

Christian Gleissner Rigid four-dimensional torus quotients

In this talk, we provide a fine classification of rigid and free torus quotients in dimension four up to biholomorphism and diffeomorphism. The proof is based on Bieberbach's structure theorems for crystallographic groups. It turns out that all examples arise as quotients of a product of Fermat elliptic curves. This is a joint work with Andreas Demleitner.

Yoav Len The Geometry of Prym Varieties

The talk will revolve around Prym varieties, a class of Abelian varieties that shows up in the presence of double covers of curves. Pryms have deep connections with torsion points of Jacobians, bitangent lines on quartics, and spin structures. As I will explain, problems concerning Pryms may be reduced, via tropical geometry, to chip-firing games on graphs. Consequently we obtain new results in the geometry of special algebraic curves and a generalization of Kirchhoff's matrix-tree theorem.

Andrés Rojas Cohomological rank functions on abelian surfaces via Bridgeland stability

In the context of abelian varieties, Z. Jiang and G. Pareschi have introduced interesting invariants called cohomological rank functions, associated to \(\mathbb{Q}\)-twisted (complexes of) coherent sheaves. We will show that, in the case of abelian surfaces, Bridgeland stability provides an alternative description of these functions. This helps to understand their general structure, and allows to compute geometrically meaningful examples. As a main application, we will give new results on the syzygies of abelian surfaces. This is a joint work with Martí Lahoz.

Sara Torelli Correspondences acting on constant cycle curves

Constant cycle curves on K3 surfaces \(X\) have been introduced by Huybrechts as curves whose points all define the same class in the Chow group. In this talk we introduce correspondences \(Z \subseteq X\times X\) over \(\mathbb{C}\) that act on the group of cycles generated by constant cycle curves. We construct for any \(n\geq 2\) and any very ample line bundle \(L\) a locus \(Z_n(L)\subseteq X\times X\) of expected dimension 2, which yields a correspondence that acts on the group of cycles generated by constant cycle curves, when it has the expected dimension. We provide examples for low \(n\) and use them to produce non rational constant cycle curves.

Registration

For the registration please write a short email to schuett at math.uni-hannover.de with your name and affiliation.

Location

Due to construction, there will be no S-Bahn connection between Schöneweide and Adlershof stations. Instead, busses are running between these two stations to replace the journey. If you are coming from Mitte we suggest you to take the S-Bahn to Ostkreuz. Change there to the regional train and then get off in Schöneweide (which goes non-stop between Ostkreuz and Schöneweide) to take the bus.

You can plan your journey here.

IRIS Adlershof
Room 1.021
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Zum Großen Windkanal 2
12489 Berlin
Germany

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Acknowledgement

The event is generously supported by: "MATH+ Distinguished Fellow" prize from Gavril Farkas.

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