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Cluster structures for Grassmannians

The coordinate ring of the Grassmannian has the structure of a cluster algebra. On the other side, the category of maximal CM modules over a certain infinite dimensional algebra is a cluster category ...

A Bonnet-Myers Theorem from a spectral assumption

We obtain a finiteness result for the fundamental group of a closed Riemannian manifold $(M^n,g)$ under the assumption that the Schrödinger operator $\Delta_g+(n-2)/\rho$ is positive (where at $x\in M...

The geometry of nilpotent varieties via subbundles of the cotangent bundle

Let G be a simple algebraic group with flag variety G/B. The Springer resolution is the moment map from the cotangent bundle of G/B to the (dual of the) Lie algebra g of G. The cohomology of the fiber...

Birational geometry of Calabi-Yau pairs and 3-dimensional Cremona transformations

ecently, Oguiso addressed the following question, attributed to Gizatullin: “Which automorphisms of a smooth quartic K3 surface $D\subset\mathbb{P}^3$ are induced by Cremona transformations of the amb...

The geometry of polynomial functors

A polynomial functor P is a functor from the category of finite-dimensional vector spaces to itself such that for every U,V the map Hom(U,V) -> Hom(P(U),P(V)) is polynomial. In characteristic zero,...

Embeddings of smooth affine varieties into algebraic groups

This is joint work with Peter Feller. In any category there are the following fundamental problems concerning embeddings from an object Z into another object X: 1. (Existence) Does there exist an embe...