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We discuss the bicrossproduct structure of the quantum group $\varrho$-Poincar\'e and of the dual quantum universal enveloping algebra, expanding the construction to general Lie algebra-type deformations of Poincar\'e coming from classical $r$-matrices. We review the relation between different bases of the quantum universal enveloping algebra of $\varrho$-Poincar\'e and noncommutative $\star$-products defined on the $\varrho$-Minkowski spacetime, analysing some of their relevant features. Furthermore, we comment on the role of physical bases and introduce the $\varrho$-Poincar\'e quantum Lie algebra., Comment: License changed to CC-BY

We define generalized dualities for heterotic and type I strings based on consistent truncations to half-maximal gauged supergravities in more than three dimensions. The latter are constructed from a generalized Scherk-Schwarz ansatz in heterotic double field theory that satisfies the strong constraint. Necessary and sufficient conditions on the resulting embedding tensor are discussed, showing that only certain gaugings, called geometric, can arise from this procedure. For all of them, we explicitly construct the internal geometry and gauge potentials. In general, this construction is not unique and permits different uplifts which are used to define generalized T-duality. Two examples are worked out underlying the utility of our approach to explore new dualities and uplifts of half-maximal gauged supergravities., Comment: License changed to CC-BY

We discuss the quantum Poincar\'e symmetries of the $\varrho$-Minkowski spacetime, a space characterised by an angular form of noncommutativity. We show that it is possible to give them both a bicrossproduct and a Drinfel'd twist structure. We also obtain a new noncommutative $\star$-product, which is cyclic with respect to the standard integral measure., Comment: 38 pages, including appendices. Minor corrections. Two references added

We consider the $\varrho$-Minkowski spacetime, a model with linear noncommutativity involving the time and the azimuthal angle. We study its quantum symmetries, the $\varrho$-Poincar\'e quantum group, and analyse the concepts of localizability and quantum observers., Comment: Minor typos corrected in v2

Let $X$ be a smooth quasi-projective algebraic surface and let $\Delta_n$ the big diagonal in the product variety $X^n$. We study cohomological properties of the ideal sheaves $\mathcal{I}^k_{\Delta_n}$ and their invariants $(\mathcal{I}^k_{\Delta_n})^{\mathfrak{S}_n}$ by the symmetric group, seen as ideal sheaves over the symmetric variety $S^nX$. In particular we obtain resolutions of the sheaves of invariants $(\mathcal{I}_{\Delta_n})^{\mathfrak{S}_n}$ for $n = 3,4$ in terms of invariants of sheaves over $X^n$ whose cohomology is easy to calculate. Moreover, we relate, via the Bridgeland-King-Reid equivalence, powers of determinant line bundles over the Hilbert scheme to powers of ideals of the big diagonal $\Delta_n$. We deduce applications to the cohomology of double powers of determinant line bundles over the Hilbert scheme with $3$ and $4$ points and we give universal formulas for their Euler-Poincar\'e characteristic. Finally, we obtain upper bounds for the regularity of the sheaves $\mathcal{I}^k_{\Delta_n}$ over $X^n$ with respect to very ample line bundles of the form $L \boxtimes \cdots \boxtimes L$ and of their sheaves of invariants $( \mathcal{I}^k_{\Delta_n})^{\mathfrak{S}_n}$ on the symmetric variety $S^nX$ with respect to very ample line bundles of the form $\mathcal{D}_L$., Comment: 34 pages, exposition improved

We study the singularities of the isospectral Hilbert scheme $B^n$ of $n$ points over a smooth algebraic surface and we prove that they are canonical if $n \leq 5$, log-canonical if $n \leq 7$ and not log-canonical if $n \geq 9$. We describe as well two explicit log-resolutions of $B^3$, one crepant and the other $\mathfrak{S}_3$-equivariant., Comment: 12 pages

We study general symmetric powers $S^k L^{[n]}$ of a tautological bundle $L^{[n]}$ on the Hilbert scheme $X^{[n]}$ of $n$ points over a smooth quasi-projective surface $X$, associated to a line bundle $L$ on $X$. Let $V_L$ be the $\mathfrak{S}_n$-vector bundle on $X^n$ defined as the exterior direct sum $L \boxplus \cdots \boxplus L$. We prove that the Bridgeland-King-Reid transform $\mathbf{\Phi}(S^k L^{[n]})$ of symmetric powers $S^k L^{[n]}$ is quasi isomorphic to the last term of a finite decreasing filtration on the natural vector bundle $S^k V_L$, defined by kernels of operators $D^l_L$, which operate locally as higher order restrictions to pairwise diagonals. We use this description and the natural filtration on $(S^k V_L)^{\mathfrak{S}_n}$ induced by the decomposition in direct sum, to obtain, for $n =2$ or $k \leq 4$, a finite decreasing filtration $\mathcal{W}^\bullet$ on the direct image $\mu_*(S^k L^{[n]})$ for the Hilbert-Chow morphism whose graded sheaves we control completely. As a consequence of this structural result, we obtain a chain of cohomological consequences, like a spectral sequence abutting to the cohomology of symmetric powers $S^k L^{[n]}$, an effective vanishing theorem for the cohomology of symmetric powers $S^k L^{[n]} \otimes \mathcal{D}_A$ twisted by the determinant, in presence of adequate positivity hypothesis on $L$ and $A$, as well as universal formulas for their Euler-Poincar\'e characteristic., Comment: pdflatex, 70 pages

Let $M$ a compact connected orientable 4-manifold. We study the space $\Xi$ of $Spin^c$-structures of fixed fundamental class, as an infinite dimensional principal bundle on the manifold of riemannian metrics on $M$. In order to study perturbations of the metric in Seiberg-Witten equations, we study the transversality of universal equations, parametrized with all $Spin^c$-structures $\Xi$. We prove that, on a complex K\"ahler surface, for an hermitian metric $h$ sufficiently close to the original K\"ahler metric, the moduli space of Seiberg-Witten equations relative to the metric $h$ is smooth of the expected dimension., Comment: 24 pages

Let $X$ a smooth quasi-projective algebraic surface, $L$ a line bundle on $X$. Let $X^{[n]}$ the Hilbert scheme of $n$ points on $X$ and $L^{[n]}$ the tautological bundle on $X^{[n]}$ naturally associated to the line bundle $L$ on $X$. We explicitely compute the image $\bkrh(L^{[n]})$ of the tautological bundle $L^{[n]}$ for the Bridgeland-King-Reid equivalence $\bkrh : \B{D}^b(X^{[n]}) \ra \B{D}^b_{\perm_n}(X^n)$ in terms of a complex $\comp{\mc{C}}_L$ of $\perm_n$-equivariant sheaves in $\B{D}^b_{\perm_n}(X^n)$. We give, moreover, a characterization of the image $\bkrh(L^{[n]} \tens ... \tens L^{[n]})$ in terms of of the hyperderived spectral sequence $E^{p,q}_1$ associated to the derived $k$-fold tensor power of the complex $\comp{\mc{C}}_L$. The study of the $\perm_n$-invariants of this spectral sequence allows to get the derived direct images of the double tensor power and of the general $k$-fold exterior power of the tautological bundle for the Hilbert-Chow morphism, providing Danila-Brion-type formulas in these two cases. This yields easily the computation of the cohomology of $X^{[n]}$ with values in $L^{[n]} \tens L^{[n]}$ and $\Lambda^k L^{[n]}$., Comment: 41 pages; revised version, exposition improved