Bernstein-Kouchnirenko-Khovanskii with a symmetry

The content of this preprint together with additional material appears now in 0706.2154.

A multidimensional generalization of the Bernstein class of functions and the properties of functions of the introduced class are examined. In particular, a new proof of the integral representation of Bernstein functions of many variables is given. Examples are considered.

We survey the approach to mirror symmetry via Laurent polynomials, outlining some of the main conjectures, problems, and questions related to the subject. We discuss: how to construct Landau--Ginzburg models for Fano varieties; how to apply them to classification problems; and how to compute invariants of Fano varieties via Landau--Ginzburg models.

We describe methods for calculation of polytopes of quasiadjunction for plane curve singularities which are invariants giving a Hodge theoretical refinement of the zero sets of multivariable Alexander polynomials. In particular we identify some hyperplanes on which all polynomials in multivariable Bernstein ideal vanish.

We prove that any quadratic complete intersection with certain action of the symmetric group has the strong Lefschetz property over a field of characteristic zero. As a consequence of it we construct a new class of homogeneous complete intersections with generators of higher degrees which have the strong Lefschetz property.

For a homogeneous polynomial of $n$ variables, we present a new method to compute the roots of Bernstein-Sato polynomial supported at the origin, assuming that general hyperplane sections of the associated projective hypersurface have at most weighted homogeneous isolated singularities. Calculating the dimensions of certain $E_r$-terms of the pole order spectral sequence for a given integer $r\in[2,n]$, we can detect its degeneration at $E_r$ for certain degrees. In the case ...

We consider the locus of irreducible nonsingular rational curves of degree d Pn, n>2, meeting a generic collection of linear subspaces. When this locus is 0 (resp 1)- dimensional, we compute (recursively) its degree (resp. geometric genus). The method is completely elementary and similar to that of (alg-geom/9704004, alg-geom/9708013), where the case n=2 was considered.

The moduli space of K3 surfaces $X$ with a purely non-symplectic automorphism $\sigma$ of order $n\geq 2$ is one dimensional exactly when $\varphi(n)=8$ or $10$. In this paper we classify and give explicit equations for the very general members $(X,\sigma)$ of the irreducible components of maximal dimension of such moduli spaces. In particular we show that there is a unique one-dimensional component for $n=20,22, 24$, three irreducible components for $n=15$ and two components...

The development of computational techniques in the last decade has made possible to attack some classical problems of algebraic geometry. In this survey, we briefly describe some open problems related to algebraic curves which can be approached from a computational viewpoint.

Given a family of analytic functions near 0 \in C^n parametrized by a smooth space, we study the Bernstein polynomial of the fiber on an irreducible variety V of the space of parameters and we show that it is generically constant. We prove that this polynomial b(s) satisfies a functional equation on V from which we derive a contructible stratification of the space of parameters by the Bernstein polynomial of the fiber. When the hypersurface admits generically a unique singula...