Let K be an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. The Jacobian Conjecture (JC) in dimension two stated by Keller in [8] says that any pair of polynomials P;Q ∈ L := K[x; y] with [P;Q] := axPayQ - axQayP ∈ Kx (a Jacobian pair ) defines an automorphism of L via x-> P and y -> Q. It turns out that the Newton polygons of such a pair of polynomials are closely related, and by analyzing them, much information can be obtained on conditions that a Jacobian pair must satisfy. Specifically, if there exists a Jacobian pair that does not define an automorphism (a counterexample) then their Newton polygons have to satisfy very restrictive geometric conditions. Based mostly on the work in [1], we present an algorithm to give precise geometrical descriptions of possible counterexamples. This means that, assuming (P;Q) is a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture with gcd(deg(P); deg(Q)) = k, we can generate the possible shapes of the Newton Polygon of P and Q and how it transforms under certain linear automorphisms. By analyzing the minimal possible counterexamples, we sketch a path to increase the lower bound of max(deg(P); deg(Q)) to 125 for a minimal possible counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture. / Sea K un cuerpo algebraicamente cerrado de característica zero. La Conjetura del Jacobiano en dimensión dos postulada por Keller en [8] dice que cualquier par de polinomios P;Q ∈ L := K[x; y] with [P;Q] := axPayQ - axQayP ∈ Kx (un par Jacobiano) define un automofismo de L via x-> P and y -> Q. Resulta que los polígonos de Newton de tal par de polinomios están relacionados íntimamente, y al analizarlos, mucha información puede ser obtenida sobre condiciones que un par Jacobiano debe satisfacer. Específicamente, si existe un par Jacobiano que no define un automorfismo (un contraejemplo) entonces sus polígonos de Newton deben satisfacer condiciones geométricas bastante restrictivas. Basado en gran parte en el trabajo en [1], presentamos un algoritmo para dar una descripción geométrica precisa de posibles contraejemplos. Esto significa que, asumiendo que (P;Q) es un contraejemplo a la Conjetura del Jacobiano con gcd(deg(P); deg(Q)) = k, podemos generar las posibles formas del Polígono de Newton de P y Q y cómo se transforman bajo ciertos automorfismos lineales. Al analizar los posibles contraejemplos minimales, esbozamos un camino para incrementar la cota inferior de max(deg(P); deg(Q)) a 125 para un posible contraejemplo minimal a la Conjetura del Jacobiano. / Tesis

En el presente trabajo de tesis estudiaremos algunos aspectos geométricos de la envoltura convexa de una trayectoria del movimiento browniano planar en un determinado intervalo de tiempo. De manera más precisa, estudiaremos el perímetro, el área y el diámetro de dicha envoltura convexa. En el primer capítulo, revisaremos el movimiento browniano planar y algunas de sus propiedades tales como el principio de reflexión, la ley de la terna de Lévy y la ley del arcoseno que nos servirá como base teórica para justificar las cotas establecidas por James McRedmond y Chang Xu para estimar el diámetro promedio de dicha envoltura convexa. En el segundo capítulo se estudiarán las principales propiedades de cuerpos convexos y la envoltura convexa de una curva donde se desarrollará las propiedades que nos permitan justificar de manera más clara la fórmula de Cauchy para el perímetro y el área de un cuerpo convexo. En el tercer capítulo se utilizará como teorema principal la fórmula de Cauchy para justificar lo que se encontró de manera explícita tanto para el perímetro promedio y el área promedio de la envoltura convexa del recorrido de un movimiento browniano planar hasta el instante t = 1. Por último, en el cuarto capítulo se utilizará la terna de Lévy como teorema principal para el desarrollo de la estimación del diámetro promedio de dicha envoltura convexa. / In this thesis work we will study some geometric aspects of the convex envelope of a trajectory of planar Brownian motion in a certain time interval. More precisely, we will study the perimeter, area, and diameter of said convex envelope. In the rst chapter, we will review the planar Brownian motion and some of its properties such as the re ection principle, Lévy's triple law and the arcsine law that will serve as a theoretical basis to justify the bounds established by James McRedmond and Chang. Xu to estimate the expected diameter of said convex envelope. In the second chapter, the main properties of convex bodies and the convex envelope of a curve will be studied, where the properties that will allow us to justify more clearly Cauchy's formula for the perimeter and area of a convex body will be developed. In the third chapter, the Cauchy formula will be used as the main theorem to justify what was found explicitly for both the expected perimeter and the expected area of the convex envelope of the path of a planar Brownian motion up to the instant t = 1. By Finally, in the fourth chapter, the Lévy triple will be used as the main theorem for the development of the estimation of the diameter of said convex envelope. / Tesis

The aim of this work is to study the ring-theoretic properties of the diagonals of a Rees algebra, which from a geometric point of view are the homogenous coordinate rings of embeddings of blow-ups of projective varieties along a subvariety. First we are going to introduce the subject and the main problems. After that we shall review the known results about these problems, and finally we will give a summary of the contents and results obtained in this work. / L’objectiu d’aquesta memòria és l’estudi de les propietats aritmètiques de les diagonals d’una àlgebra de Rees o, des d’un punt de vista geomètric, dels anells de coordenades homogenis d’immersions d’explosions de varietats projectives al llarg d’una subvarietat. En primer lloc, anem a introduir el tema i els principals problemes que tractarem. A continuació, exposarem els resultats coneguts sobre aquests problemes i finalment farem un resum dels resultats obtinguts en aquesta memòria.

We describe a correspondence between two different links associated to the same K3 orbifold. This duality is produced when two elements, one inside and the other on the boundary of the Kähler cone, are identified. We call this correspondence ∂-duality. We also discuss the consequences of ∂-duality at the level of metrics. / Describimos una correspondencia entre dos enlaces asociados a un mismo espacio K3 que soporta a lo más, singularidades cíclicas de tipo orbifold. Esta dualidad se hace evidente cuando dos elementos, uno en el interior y el otro en la frontera del cono de Kähler, son identificados. Denominamos a esta correspondencia ∂-dualidad. También discutimos las consecuencias de ∂-dualidad al nivel de estructuras riemaniannas.

The main purpose of this thesis is to apply the modular approach to Diophantine equations to study some Fermat-type equations of signature (r; r; p) with r >/= 5 a fixed prime and “p” varying. In particular, we will study equations of the form x(r) + y(r) = Cz(p), where C is an integer divisible only by primes “q” is non-identical to 1; 0 (mod “r”) and obtain explicit arithmetic results for “r” = 5, 7, 13. We start with equations of the form x(5) + y(5) = Cz(p). Firstly, we attach two Frey curves E; F defined over Q(square root 5) to putative solutions of the equation. Then by using the work of J. Quer on embedding problems and on abelian varieties attached to Q-curves we prove that the p-adic Galois representations attached to E, F can be extended to p-adic representations E), (F) of Gal(Q=Q). Finally, we apply Serre's conjecture to the residual representations  (E), (F) and using Siksek's multi-Frey technique we conclude that the initial solution can not exist. We also describe a general method for attacking infinitely many equations of the form x(r) + y(r) = Cz(p) for all r>/= 7. The method makes use of elliptic curves over totally real fields, modularity and irreducibility results for representations attached to elliptic curves and level lowering theorems for Hilbert modular forms. Indeed, for each fixed “r” we produce several Frey curves defined over K+, the maximal totally real subfield of Q(xi-r). Moreover, if “r” is of the form 6k + 1 we prove the existence of a Frey curve defined over K(0) the subfield of K(+) of degree k. We prove also an irreducibility result for the mod “p” representations attached to certain elliptic curves and a modularity statement for elliptic curves over totally real abelian number fields satisfying some local conditions at 3. Finally, for r = 7 and r = 13 we are able to compute the required spaces of (Hilbert) newforms and by applying our general methods we obtain explicit arithmetic results for equations of signature (7; 7; p) and (13; 13; p). We end by providing two more Frey k-curves (a generalization of Q-curve), where “k” is a certain subfield of K(+), when “r” is a fixed prime of the form 4m+1. / En esta tesis, utilizaremos el método modular para profundizar en el estudio de las ecuaciones de tipo (r; r; p) para r un primo fijado. Empezamos por utilizar la teoría de J. Quer sobre variedades abelianas asociadas con Q-curvas y embedding problems para producir dos curvas de Frey asociadas con hipotéticas soluciones de infinitas ecuaciones de tipo (5; 5; p). Después, utilizando la conjetura de Serre y el método multi-Frey de Siksek demostraremos que las hipotéticas soluciones no pueden existir. Describiremos también un método general que nos permite atacar un número infinito de ecuaciones de tipo (r; r; p) para cada primo “r” mayor o igual que 7. El método hace uso de curvas elípticas sobre cuerpos de números, teoremas de modularidad, teoremas de bajada de nivel y formas modulares de Hilbert. Además, para ecuaciones de tipo (7; 7; p) y (13; 13; p) calcularemos los espacios de formas modulares relevantes y demostraremos que una familia infinita de ecuaciones no admite cierto tipo de soluciones. Además, demostraremos un nuevo teorema de modularidad para curvas elípticas sobre cuerpos totalmente reales abelianos. Finalmente, para primos congruentes con 1 módulo 4 propondremos dos curvas de Frey más. Demostraremos que son “k-curves” (una generalización de Q-curva) y también que satisfacen las propiedades necesarias para que pueda ser útiles en la aplicación del método modular.

In the present work, we analyse the categories of mixed Hodge complexes and mixed Hodge diagrams of differential graded algebras in these two directions: we prove the existence of both a Cartan-Eilenberg structure, via the construction of cofibrant minimal models, and a cohomological descent structure. This allows to interpret the results of Deligne, Beilinson, Morgan and Navarro within a common homotopical framework. In the additive context of mixed Hodge complexes we recover Beilinson's results. In our study we go a little further and show that the homotopy category of mixed Hodge complexes, and the derived category of mixed Hodge structures are equivalent to a third category whose objects are graded mixed Hodge structures and whose morphisms are certain homotopy classes, which are easier to manipulate. In particular, we obtain a description of the morphisms in the homotopy category in terms of morphisms and extensions of mixed Hodge structures, and recover the results of Carlson [Car80] in this area. As for the multiplicative analogue, we show that every mixed Hodge diagram can be represented by a mixed Hodge algebra which is Sullivan minimal, and establish a multiplicative version of Beilinson's Theorem. This provides an alternative to Morgan's construction. The main difference between the two approaches is that Morgan uses ad hoc constructions of models à la Sullivan, specially designed for mixed Hodge theory, while we follow the line of Quillen's model categories or Cartan-Eilenberg categories, in which the main results are expressed in terms of equivalences of homotopy categories, and the existence of certain derived functors. In particular, we obtain not only a description of mixed Hodge diagrams in terms of Sullivan minimal algebras, but we also have a description of the morphisms in the homotopy category in terms of certain homotopy classes, parallel to the additive case. In addition, our approach generalizes to broader settings, such as the study of compactificable analytic spaces, for which the Hodge and weight filtrations can be defined, but do not satisfy the properties of mixed Hodge theory. Combining these results with Navarro's functorial construction of mixed Hodge diagrams, and using the cohomological descent structure defined via the Thom-Whitney simple, we obtain a more precise and alternative proof of that the rational homotopy type, and the rational homotopy groups of every simply connected complex algebraic variety inherit functorial mixed Hodge structures. As an application, and extending the Formality Theorem of Deligne-Griffiths-Morgan-Sullivan for compact Kähler varieties and the results of Morgan for open smooth varieties, we prove that every simply connected complex algebraic variety (possibly open and singular) and every morphism between such varieties is filtered formal: its rational homotopy type is entirely determined by the first term of the spectral sequence associated with the multiplicative weight filtration. / En aquest treball, analitzem les categories de complexos de Hodge mixtos i de diagrames de Hodge d'àlgebres diferencials graduades en aquestes dues direccions: provem l'existència d'una estructura de Cartan-Eilenberg, via la construcció de models cofibrants minimals, i d'una estructura de descens cohomològic. Aquest estudi permet interpretar els resultats de Deligne, Beilinson, Morgan i Navarro en un marc homotòpic comú.