scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2135209

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Authors Thomas Peternell, Andrew J. Sommese

Publication date 18 February 2005

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0211220

zbMATH Keywords

covering of low degreeFano manifoldramification divisor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coverings in algebraic geometry (14E20) Fano varieties (14J45)

Review text

Let \(X\) and \(Y\) be projective manifolds of the same dimension and let \(f\colon X\to Y\) be a cover, namely a finite morphism, of degree \(d\). To \(f\) one associates \({\mathcal E}:=(f_*\mathcal {O}_X/{\mathcal O}_Y)^*\), which is a vector bundle of rank \(d-1\) on \(Y\). The authors continue here the study of the positivity properties of \({\mathcal E}\) started in the first part [Commun. Algebra 28, No. 12, 5573--5599 (2000; Zbl 0982.14025)], with special attention to the case in which \(Y\) is a Fano manifold. Their first result is negative: they exhibit an example of a triple cover of a Fano threefold of degree 5 for which \({\mathcal E}\) is not ample (by results of the authors and Lazarsfeld [ibid. and appendix], \({\mathcal E}\) is known to be nef on the general curve of \(Y\) and to be spanned when \(Y\) is a del Pezzo manifold of degree \(\geq 5\).) In the second part of the paper they study topological properties of low degree covers. They find sufficient conditions for the surjectivity of the map \(H^i(Y)\to H^i(X)\), thus generalizing a well known result of \textit{R. Lazarsfeld} on covers of \({\mathbb P}^n\) of low degree [Math. Ann. 249, 153--162 (1980; Zbl 0434.32013)], and for the ampleness of the branch divisor \(R\subset X\). The divisor \(R\) was already known to be ample in the case in which \(Y\) is a projective space or a quadric [cf. \textit{A. Lanteri, M. Palleschi} and \textit{A. J. Sommese}, Osaka J. Math. 26, No.3, 647--664 (1989; Zbl 0715.14005) and \textit{R. Lazarsfeld}, loc. cit.] For the entire collection see [Zbl 1051.00013].

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