Birational maps between generalized Severi–Brauer varieties

Birational Cobordisms and Factorization of Birational Maps

In this paper we develop a Morse-like theory in order to decompose birational maps and morphisms of smooth projective varieties defined over a field of characteristic zero into more elementary steps which are locallyétale isomorphic to equivariant flips, blow-ups and blow-downs of toric varieties (see Theorems 1, 2 and 3). The crucial role in the considerations is played by K *-actions where K ...

Secant Varieties and Birational Geometry

We show how to use information about the equations defining secant varieties to smooth projective varieties in order to construct a natural collection of birational transformations. These were first constructed as flips in the case of curves by M. Thaddeus via Geometric Invariant Theory, and the first flip in the sequence was constructed by the author for varieties of arbitrary dimension in an ...

Birational geometry of defective varieties

Here we investigate the birational geometry of projective varieties of arbitrary dimension having defective higher secant varieties. We apply the classical tool of tangential projections and we determine natural conditions for uniruledness, rational connectivity, and rationality. AMS Subject Classification: 14N05.

Normal Varieties and Birational Correspondences

Birational invariants of algebraic varieties

We extend the notion of Iitaka dimension of a line bundle, and deene a family of dimensions indexed by weights, for vector bundles of arbitrary ranks on complex varieties. In the case of the cotangent bundle, we get a family of birational invariants, including the Kodaira dimension and the cotangent genus introduced by Sakai. We treat in detail several classes of examples, such as complete inte...