Algebraic Geometry: A Volume in Memory of Paolo Francia

Frontmatter\nTable of Contents\nFormal functions, connectivity and homogeneous spaces\nOn algebraic 1-motives related to Hodge cycles\nThe Szpiro inequality for higher genus fibrations\nOn regular surfaces of general type with pg = 2 and non-birational bicanonical map\nCanonical projections of irregular algebraic surfaces\nOn surfaces with pg = 2, q = 1 and non-birational bicanonical map\nOn unirationality of double covers of fixed degree and large dimension; a method of Ciliberto\nWeighted Grassmannians\nResolution of indeterminacy of pairs\nThe Chow motive of the Godeaux surface\nFrancia’s flip and derived categories\nOn the quadric hull of a canonical surface\nA note on Bogomolov’s instability and Higgs sheaves\nJets of antimulticanonical bundles on Del Pezzo surfaces of degree ≤ 2\nA survey on the bicanonical map of surfaces with pg = 0 and K2 ≥ 2\nThe antibirational involutions of the plane and the classification of real del Pezzo surfaces\nLetters of a bi-rationalist IV. Geometry of log flips\nA method for tracking singular paths with application to the numerical irreducible decomposition\nBackmatter