Some applications of the theory of positive vector bundles
Some applications of the theory of positive vector bundles
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正向量丛理论的一些应用
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10.1007/bfb0099356
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1984
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R. Lazarsfeld
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R. Lazarsfeld
Introduction A considerable body of work has developed over the last few years loosely centered about the notion of positivity in algebraic geometry. On the one hand, numerous results have appeared on what might be called the geometry of projective space, the theme being the often remarkable special properties enjoyed by low codimensional subvar-Let. Les of, and mappings to, projective space (cr,[L},[27],[9],[ll],[151,[31],[43], f32]). These results depend on the positivity of projective Space itself, as manifested for example in various theorems of Bertini type. In another direction, the general theory of positive vector bundles has recently been extended and, more interestingly, applied in various geometric situations (cf.[42],[12],[13],[31],[7]). Bridging these two groups of results, in a class all by itself, one has Mori's far-reaching proof of the Frankel-Hartshorne([35],[6]). Our lectures at the CIME conference were largely concerned with the geometry of projective space, and especially with the work of FL Zak on linear normality ([43],[32]). In addition, we discussed a recent theorem of Z. Ran [391 related to Hartshorne's conjecture [27J on complete intersections. Most of this material has been surveyed eLsewhere (cf.[23],[11],[32]), and we do not propose to duplicate t he existing literature here.The present paper will rather constitute the notes to a course that we might have given at the Acirea1e conference, focusing on positive vector bundles and their applications. We start (§ 1) with an elementary overview of the general theory, emphasizing the similarities and differences between the cases of line bundles and vector bundles of higher rank. The remaining sections are devoted to expositions of several previously unpublished proofs and results. In § 2 we give a simple topological proof of a theorem guaranteeing that under suitable positivity and dimensional hypotheses a map of vector bundles must drop rank. We then sketch how this may be applied, along the lines of [12], to give a quick proof of (a slight generalization of) a recent theorem of Ghione [16] concerning the existence of special divisors associated to a vector bundle on an algebraic curve. In § 3 we usE) a theorem of Goresky-MacPherson [17J to prove a homotopy Lefschetz-type result for the zero-loci of sections of certain positive vector bundles (Thm. 3.5). We