In this paper, over the field of complex numbers, we prove that a numerical Godeaux surface contains at most six pairwise disjoint $(-2)$-curves, and that this bound is sharp. As an application, we refine the classification of involutions on smooth minimal surfaces of general type with $p_g=0$ and $K^2=7$: the divisorial fixed part $R$ satisfies $R^2=-1$, the involution acts trivially on $H^*(S,\mathbb{Q})$, and, if the minimal resolution of the quotient is of general type, it is a numerical Campedelli surface containing five pairwise disjoint $(-2)$-curves. Another application concerns commuting involutions on smooth minimal surfaces of general type with $p_g=0$ and $K^2=8$.
Let $C\subset X(1)\times X(1)$ be a smooth curve defined over $\mathbb{C}_p$ with irreducible reduction. We study the intersection loci of $C$ with the modular subvarieties $Y_0(n)$. If the curve $C$ avoids points where both coordinates have supersingular reduction, or if a sequence $Y_0(a_n)$ is taken where the number...
We prove that, for every non-uniform arithmetic lattice in $\mathrm{SU}(2,1)$, its inverse images in the universal cover and in all connected finite covers are residually finite. The key new input is that every commensurability class of such lattices contains a congruence arithmetic lattice $\Gamma$ for which $$H^1_{\m...
Let $G=\operatorname{Gr}(k,V)$ be a complex Grassmannian in its Pl$\"u$cker embedding, and let $Y_E$ be a general codimension-$r$ linear section. We study the open Hilbert scheme $R_2(Y_E)$ of smooth conics using the kernel and span of a conic. These define a flag variety $B=\operatorname{Fl}(k-2,k+2;V)$ and a relative...
Let $X$ be a closed, smooth, orientable, positive definite $4$-manifold with $H_1(X ; \mathbb{Z}) = 0$. Let $p$ be a prime and suppose that $G = \mathbb{Z}_p$ acts smoothly on $X$ (if $p=2$ we also require an assumption on how $G$ acts on $H^2(X ; \mathbb{Z})$). Using equivariant Yang--Mills theory, Hambleton--Lee and...
For $r>2$, we study the moduli space parameterising fixed degree morphisms $\mathbb P^r\to X$ where $X$ is a smooth hypersurface of low degree. More precisely, we prove the following result: let $n\geq 2, e\geq 1$ and $X\subset \mathbb P^{n-1}$ a smooth degree $d\geq 2$ hypersurface over an algebraically closed field o...
We consider the family of cyclic fourfold covers $w^4 = \prod_{j=1}^{7}(z-x_j)$ of the complex projective line branched at the eight points $x_1,\ldots,x_7,\infty$. The period map identifies the configuration space $X(2,8)$ of the branch points with a Zariski open subset of a quotient of the five-dimensional complex ba...
Ryunosuke Nakano· 0 citations
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