Journal of Algebraic Geometry

Author(s): Christophe Soulé
Journal: J. Algebraic Geom. 13 (2004), 323-341.
Posted: December 4, 2003
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Abstract: Given an arithmetic surface and a positive hermitian line bundle over it, we bound the successive minima of the lattice of global sections of this line bundle. Our method combines a result of C. Voisin on secant varieties of projective curves with previous work by the author on the arithmetic analog of the Kodaira vanishing theorem. The paper also includes a result of A. Granville on the divisibility properties of binomial coefficients in a given line of Pascal's triangle.

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Christophe Soulé
Affiliation: IHES, Le Bois Marie, 35 route de Chartres, F-91440 Bures-sur-Yvette, France
Email: soule@ihes.fr

PII: S 1056-3911(03)00351-5
Received by editor(s): November 20, 2001
Posted: December 4, 2003

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