We show that for pseudoeffective projective pairs the termination of one sequence of flips implies the termination of all flips, assuming a natural conjecture on the behaviour of the Nakayama-Zariski decomposition under the operations of a Minimal Model Program.

We study the congruence of bitangent lines of an irreducible surface in the 3-dimensional projective space in arbitrary characteristic, with special attention to quartic surfaces with rational double points and, in particular, Kummer quartic surfaces. final version

We use dualities of quiver moduli induced by reflection functors to describe generating series of motives of Kronecker moduli spaces of central slope as solutions of algebraic and q-difference equations.15 pages; v2: several small improvements to the presentation; v3: more slight improvements to the presentation, v4: published version

For fixed prime integer $p > 0$ we develop a notion of Bernstein-Sato polynomial for polynomials with $\mathbb{Z} / p^m$-coefficients, compatible with existing theory in the case $m = 1$. We show that the ``roots" of such polynomials are rational and we show that the negative roots agree with those of the mod-$p$ reduction. We give examples to show that, surprisingly, roots may be positive in this context. Moreover, our construction allows us to define a notion of ``strength" for roots by measuring $p$-torsion, and we show that ``strong" roots give rise to roots in characteristic zero through mod-$p$ reduction.Comments welcome. v3: final version. v2: fixed typos, small changes in notation, and additional example following suggestions from the referee

Terminalizations of symplectic quotients are sources of new deformation types of irreducible symplectic varieties. We classify all terminalizations of quotients of Hilbert schemes of K3 surfaces or of generalized Kummer varieties, by finite groups of symplectic automorphisms induced from the underlying K3 or abelian surface. We determine their second Betti number and the fundamental group of their regular locus. In the Kummer case, we prove that the terminalizations have quotient singularities, and determine the singularities of their universal quasi-étale cover. In particular, we obtain at least nine new deformation types of irreducible symplectic varieties of dimension four. Finally, we compare our deformation types with those in [FM21; Men22]. The smooth terminalizations are only three and of K$3^{[n]}$-type, and surprisingly they all appeared in different places in the literature [Fuj83; Kaw09; Flo22].47 pages, 11 tables, 5 pictures. Comments are welcome!

The aim of this paper is to estimate the irrationality of moduli spaces of hyperk\"ahler manifolds of types K3$^{[n]}$, Kum$_{n}$, OG6, and OG10. We prove that the degrees of irrationality of these moduli spaces are bounded from above by a universal polynomial in the dimension and degree of the manifolds they parametrize. We also give a polynomial bound for the degrees of irrationality of moduli spaces of $(1,d)$-polarized abelian surfaces.

We prove an optimal Kawamata-Miyaoka-type inequality for terminal $\mathbb Q$-Fano threefolds with Fano index at least $3$. As an application, any terminal $\mathbb Q$-Fano threefold $X$ satisfies the following Kawamata-Miyaoka-type inequality \[ c_1(X)^3 < 3c_2(X)c_1(X). \]Comment: 33 pages, 4 tables. Any comments are welcome. v2: we improve the exposition, 29 pages, 3 tables. v3: Final published vesion

Let $G$ be a finite group and $H\subseteq G$ be its subgroup. We prove that if a smooth del Pezzo surface over an algebraically closed field is $H$-birationally rigid then it is also $G$-birationally rigid, answering a geometric version of Koll\'{a}r's question in dimension 2 by positive.Comment: Reorganization of the text according to the referees' suggestions

We study the relationship between solutions to better-behaved GKZ hypergeometric systems near different large radius limit points, and their geometric counterparts given by the $K$-groups of the associated toric Deligne-Mumford stacks. We prove that the $K$-theoretic Fourier-Mukai transforms associated to toric wall-crossing coincide with analytic continuation transformations of Gamma series solutions to the better-behaved GKZ systems, which settles a conjecture of Borisov and Horja.Comment: 20 pages, 1 figure; published version

This article proves, in the case of split groups over arbitrary fields, that all fibers of convolution morphisms attached to parahoric affine flag varieties are paved by products of affine lines and affine lines minus a point. This applies in particular to the affine Grassmannian and to the convolution morphisms in the context of the geometric Satake correspondence. The second part of the article extends these results over $\mathbb Z$. Those in turn relate to the recent work of Cass-van den Hove-Scholbach on the geometric Satake equivalence for integral motives, and provide some alternative proofs for some of their results.Comment: 24 pages. Minor error corrected with the addition of Lemma 7.2. Lemma 7.3 added. Material on triviality of morphisms added to section 5. Minor changes in notation. Published version