Morphisms

Construct morphisms

A variety morphism can be built using the function hom.

hom(X::AbsVariety, Y::AbsVariety, fˣ::Vector)
hom(X::AbsVariety, Y::AbsVariety, fˣ::Vector, fₓ)

The pullback is relatively easy to describe since it's functorial, while the pushforward is usually more complicated. In some cases, the pushforward can be automatically computed from the pullback. Specifically, the projection formula tells us

\[\forall x\in A^*(X),y\in A^*(Y)\quad f_*(x\cdot f^*y) = f_*x\cdot y.\]

Since we are working with numerical equivalence, to determine $f_*x$, it suffices to know all its intersection numbers, which can readily be computed using the pullback. However, for this to work, it is important that all the algebraic classes of $Y$ are present (or at least those having non-zero intersection numbers with $f_*x$). This is the case in the following situations:

• When $Y$ is a point or a curve;
• When all the algebraic classes on $Y$ are known, which can be declared by using set_special(Y, :alg => true);
• When :alg is passed as the fourth argument. This can be used when we are certain that the pushforward computed is correct, even though not all classes on $Y$ are present.

In other cases, a warning will be given if one tries to do pushforward.

Examples

Veronese embeddings and Segre embeddings

julia> P2 = proj(2)
AbsVariety of dim 2

julia> chi(OO(P2, 2))
6

julia> v = hom(P2, proj(5), [2P2.O1])
AbsVarietyHom from AbsVariety of dim 2 to AbsVariety of dim 5

julia> P = proj(2)
AbsVariety of dim 2

julia> PxP = P * P
AbsVariety of dim 4

julia> chi(OO(PxP, 1))
9

julia> s = hom(PxP, proj(8), [PxP.O1])
AbsVarietyHom from AbsVariety of dim 4 to AbsVariety of dim 8

Inclusion of the diagonal in the product

We create two copies of $\mathbf P^2$ so that they have different variables.

julia> Ph, Pk = proj(2, symbol="h"), proj(2, symbol="k")
(AbsVariety of dim 2, AbsVariety of dim 2)

julia> PxP = Ph * Pk
AbsVariety of dim 4

julia> D = proj(2) # the diagonal
AbsVariety of dim 2

julia> i = hom(D, PxP, [D.O1, D.O1])
AbsVarietyHom from AbsVariety of dim 2 to AbsVariety of dim 4

julia> pushforward(i, D(1)) # the class of the diagonal
h^2 + h*k + k^2

The diagonal is a special case of graph: it is the graph of the identity morphism (see below).

A "non-algebraic" example

Here is an example to illustrate what can go wrong when we try to pushforward "non-algebraic" classes, i.e., classes that are not present.

Consider a cubic surface $S$. We can build it in two ways:

• We can build it as a (hyper)surface in $\mathbf P^3$, then in codimension 1 we only get the class of a (hyper)plane section.

julia> S1 = complete_intersection(proj(3), 3)
AbsVariety of dim 2

julia> basis(S1)
3-element Vector{Vector{IntersectionTheory.ChRingElem}}:
 [1]
 [h]
 [h^2]

• We can realize it as $\mathbf P^2$ blown up at 6 points, so the cohomology is entirely algebraic with Betti numbers 1,7,1.

julia> S2 = blowup_points(6, proj(2))
AbsVariety of dim 2

julia> basis(S2)
3-element Vector{Vector{IntersectionTheory.ChRingElem}}:
 [1]
 [h, e₁, e₂, e₃, e₄, e₅, e₆]
 [h^2]

The linear system on $S_2$ that provides the embedding into $\mathbf P^3$ can be given by $H:=3h-\sum e_i$.

julia> e, h = gens(S2)[1:6], gens(S2)[end]
(IntersectionTheory.ChRingElem[e₆, e₅, e₄, e₃, e₂, e₁], h)

julia> H = 3h - sum(e)
-e₆ - e₅ - e₄ - e₃ - e₂ - e₁ + 3*h

julia> chi(OO(S2, H))
4

julia> integral(H^2)
3

This means that we can define a map $f:S_2\to S_1$ which is in fact an isomorphism.

julia> f = hom(S2, S1, [H])
AbsVarietyHom from AbsVariety of dim 2 to AbsVariety of dim 2

julia> f.dim, ch(f.T) # the relative tangent bundle is trivial
(0, 0)

But we won't be able to pushforward classes on $S_2$ to $S_1$, since they are not present in $S_1$ hence "non-algebraic".

julia> pushforward(f, e[1])
┌ Warning: assuming that all algebraic classes are known for
│ AbsVariety of dim 2
│ otherwise the result may be wrong
└ @ IntersectionTheory ~/work/IntersectionTheory/IntersectionTheory/src/Main.jl:154
1//3*h

We received a warning and the result is indeed wrong: the exceptional divisors are not homologous to complete intersections.

Canonically defined morphisms

hom(X::AbsVariety, Y::AbsVariety)

Using hom(X, Y) (or X → Y) without other arguments will try to find a canonically defined morphism from $X$ to $Y$. This means

• Either $X$ or $Y$ is a point;
• When $X$ is a product of $Y$ with some other variety, so we have a projection map;
• When $X$ is a projective / relative flag bundle over $Y$ (in other words, one can arrive at $Y$ by following the chain of structure maps from $X$).

In Schubert2, this is the operator X / Y. We will however use the symbol X → Y instead, which can be typed using the LaTeX-like abbreviation X \to[tab] Y.

Examples

Products

julia> P, Q = proj(1), proj(1)
(AbsVariety of dim 1, AbsVariety of dim 1)

julia> PxQ = P * Q
AbsVariety of dim 2

julia> PxQ → P
AbsVarietyHom from AbsVariety of dim 2 to AbsVariety of dim 1

Note that if we use PxP = P * P, then we will only be able to get the first projection using PxP → P since we cannot distinguish the two components. Alternatively we can retrieve the two projections using get_special(PxQ, :projections) or PxQ.other[:projections].

julia> PxQ.other[:projections]
ERROR: type AbsVariety has no field other

Structure map

julia> X, (E,) = variety(2, [3 => "c"])
(AbsVariety of dim 2, IntersectionTheory.AbsBundle[AbsBundle of rank 3 on AbsVariety of dim 2])

julia> PE = proj(E)
AbsVariety of dim 4

julia> PE → X
AbsVarietyHom from AbsVariety of dim 4 to AbsVariety of dim 2

The structure maps are also used for coercion of bundles. For example, in the above case we can pullback bundles by tensoring with the structure sheaf of $\mathbf P(E)$.

julia> OO(PE) * E
AbsBundle of rank 3 on AbsVariety of dim 4

Operators

pullback(f::AbsVarietyHom, x::ChRingElem)
pullback(f::AbsVarietyHom, F::AbsBundle)

pushforward(f::AbsVarietyHom, x::ChRingElem)
pushforward(f::AbsVarietyHom, F::AbsBundle)

*(f::AbsVarietyHom, g::AbsVarietyHom)

dim(f::AbsVarietyHom)

tangent_bundle(f::AbsVarietyHom)

cotangent_bundle(f::AbsVarietyHom)

todd(f::AbsVarietyHom)

Graph of a morphism

graph(f::AbsVarietyHom)

Examples

The graph of the identity morphism is the diagonal.

julia> P1, P2 = proj(2, symbol="h"), proj(2, symbol="k")
(AbsVariety of dim 2, AbsVariety of dim 2)

julia> id = hom(P1, P2, [P1.O1])
AbsVarietyHom from AbsVariety of dim 2 to AbsVariety of dim 2

julia> i = graph(id)
AbsVarietyHom from AbsVariety of dim 2 to AbsVariety of dim 4

julia> pushforward(i, P1(1))
h^2 + h*k + k^2

Blowup

blowup(i::AbsVarietyHom)

Note that the exceptional divisor is returned as an abstract variety. To get its class in the blowup, we can use pushforward(E → Bl, E(1)).

We also have the following for convenience.

blowup_points(n::Int, X::AbsVariety)

Examples

julia> P = proj(2)
AbsVariety of dim 2

julia> Bl, E = blowup(point() → P)
(AbsVariety of dim 2, AbsVariety of dim 1)

julia> euler(Bl)
4

julia> e = pushforward(E → Bl, E(1))
e

julia> integral(e^2)
-1

Examples

Here is the solution to Steiner's problem.

julia> P2, P5 = proj(2), proj(5)
(AbsVariety of dim 2, AbsVariety of dim 5)

julia> v = hom(P2, P5, [2P2.O1]) # the Veronese embedding
AbsVarietyHom from AbsVariety of dim 2 to AbsVariety of dim 5

julia> Bl, E = blowup(v)
(AbsVariety of dim 5, AbsVariety of dim 4)

julia> h = pullback(Bl → P5, P5.O1)
h

julia> e = pushforward(E → Bl, E(1))
e

julia> integral((6h - 2e)^5)
3264