NORTHEASTERNUNIVERSITY
MATHEMATICSDEPARTMENT


Geometry-Algebra-Singularities-Combinatorics 
Seminar

 
Unobstructed deformations in characteristic p>0

 

Stefan Schroeer

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)



 
 
 

Northeastern University

509 Lake Hall

1:30 p.m., Monday, April 2, 2000

 
 
 

Abstract: A Theorem of Tian, Bogomolov, Ran, and Kawamata says that complex Calabi-Yau manifolds have unobstructed deformations. A counterexample of Hirokado shows that, in this form, the Theorem does not hold in characteristic p>0.

I shall explain why Kawamata's proof fails in characteristic p>0. Then I discuss how to use divided power structures and suitable assumptions on crystalline cohomology to get the result in characteristic p>0.       


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