Adjoint bundle

Abstract: We show that under suitable hypothesis (which are sharp in certain sense) that the core of an m-primary ideal in a regular local ring of dimension d is equal to the adjoint (or multiplier) ideal of its d-th power, generalizing a result of Huneke and Swanson in dimension two. We also prove a version of this in the singular setting, which we show to be intimately related to the problem of finding global sections of ample line bundles on projective varieties. In particular, we show that a graded analog of our formula for core would imply a remarkable conjecture of Kawamata predicting that every ample adjoint bundle has a non-trivial section.

Abstract: Let G be a simple linear algebraic group defined over the complex numbers. Fix a proper parabolic subgroup P of G and a nontrivial antidominant character \chi of P. We prove that a holomorphic principal G-bundle E over a connected complex projective manifold M is semistable and the second Chern class of its adjoint bundle vanishes in rational cohomology if and only if the line bundle over E/P defined by \chi is numerically effective. Similar results remain valid for principal bundles with a reductive linear algebraic group as the structure group. These generalize an earlier work of Y. Miyaoka where he gave a characterization of semistable vector bundles over a smooth projective curve. Using these characterizations one can also produce similar criteria for the semistability of parabolic principal bundles over a compact Riemann surface.

Abstract: A complex manifold $X$ of dimension $n$ together with an ample vector bundle $E$ on it will be called a {\sf generalized polarized variety}. The adjoint bundle of the pair $(X,E)$ is the line bundle $K_X + det(E)$. We study the positivity (the nefness or ampleness) of the adjoint bundle in the case $r := rank (E) = (n-2)$. If $r\geq (n-1)$ this was previously done in a series of paper by Ye-Zhang, Fujita, Andreatta-Ballico-Wisniewski. If $K_X+detE$ is nef, then by the Kawamata-Shokurov base point free theorem, it supports a contraction; i.e. a map $\pi :X \longrightarrow W$ from $X$ onto a normal projective variety $W$ with connected fiber and such that $K_X + det(E) = \pi^*H$, for some ample line bundle $H$ on $W$. We describe those contractions for which $dimF \leq (r-1)$. We extend this result to the case in which $X$ has log terminal singualarities. In particular this gives the Mukai's conjecture1 for singular varieties. We consider also the case in which $dimF = r$ for every fibers and $\pi$ is birational. Hard copies of the paper are available.