Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 44). / This thesis is organized into two papers. All results are proven over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. Paper 1 concerns morphisms between hypersurfaces in Pn, n =/> 4. We show that if the two hypersurfaces involved in the morphism are of general type, then the morphism of hypersurfaces extends to an everywhere-defined endomorphism of Pn. A corollary is that if X [right arrow] Y is a nonconstant morphism of hypersurfaces of large dimension and large degree, then deg Y divides deg X. The main tool used to analyze morphism between hypersurfaces is an inequality of Chern classes analogous to the Hurwitz-inequality. Paper 2 is a long example. We check that every morphism from a quintic hypersurface in I4 to a nonsingular cubic hypersurface in P4 is constant. In the process, we classify morphisms froin the projective plane to nonsingular cubic threefolds. / by David C. Sheppard. / Ph.D.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/29352 |
| Date | January 2003 |
| Creators | Sheppard, David C. (David Christopher), 1977- |
| Contributors | Aise Johan de Jong., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mathematics., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mathematics. |
| Publisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Source Sets | M.I.T. Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 44 p., 2014696 bytes, 2014504 bytes, application/pdf, application/pdf, application/pdf |
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