In this talk I will present a joint work with C. Casagrande, in which we study smooth complex Fano 4-folds with a rational fibration onto a 3-fold. After an introduction on the setting and motivation, I will discuss our main result: if X is Fano 4-fold with a rational fibration onto a 3-fold and it is not a product of surfaces, then the Picard number of X is at most 9, and the bound is sharp. Moreover, I will present a classification result in a special case within the setting above, and show new examples of Fano 4-folds with large Picard number.

We study the T-equivariant cobordism rings for the action of a maximal torus T on smooth varieties over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. The rational T-equivariant cobordism rings of a wide range of examples were computed in recent years including the classes of toric varieties, flag varieties and symmetric varieties of minimal rank using mainly the technique of localisation at fixed points. We seek to extend the known results to any smooth projective (horo-)spherical variety with an action of a maximal torus T. Among others, we obtain explicit presentations for the rational equivariant cobordism rings of odd symplectic Grassmannians IG(k,2n+1). Furthermore, using the self-intersection formula, we are able to compute a wide range of classes in the rational T-equivariant cobordism ring.

It is well-known that the space of Riemannian metrics on a smooth manifold is path-connected. Indeed, the convex combination of Riemannian metrics produces a Riemannian metric. This is not true, for the space of Lorentzian metric and a natural question pop up: Are there some natural operations that can be used to produce Lorentzian metrics starting from Lorentzian metrics?

This talk aims to provide sufficient conditions for some kind of linear combination of Lorentzian metrics to be a Lorentzian metric. In particular, the notion of paracausal deformation of a Lorentzian metric will be introduced and discussed in detail. After few characterizations, I will discuss shortly the consequences in quantum field theory.

Exposé en visio-conférence, retransmis en direct en salle de conférence de l’IECL Nancy. Lien public

https://webvisio.univ-lorraine.fr/index.html?id=5147&secret=84a837ee-c66c-4d9b-bd75-6f0d540a8c34

Le cours aura lieu en salle 313.

Le cours aura lieu en salle 113.

Résumé : l’étude des variétés à courbure scalaire positive a longtemps uniquement montré des restrictions de nature topologique sur ces dernières. Ces dernières années des résultats de nature plus quantitative ont été montrés d’abord par Gromov, puis (entre autres) par Zhu. Zhu en particulier montre que qu’une métrique à scal≥2 sur S²xT^(n-2) (avec n≤7) admet une 2-sphère topologiquement non triviale d’aire au plus 4π. Après avoir exposé ces résultats on en montrera des analogues pour S²xS² et S²xR².