On the Picard group of a compact flat projective variety

Michelacakis, N.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03709-4

On the Picard group of a compact flat projective variety
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Abstract:

In this note, we describe the Picard group of the class of compact, smooth, flat, projective varieties. In view of Charlap’s work and Johnson’s characterization, we construct line bundles over such manifolds as the holonomy-invariant elements of the Neron-Severi group of a projective flat torus covering the manifold. We prove a generalized version of the Appell-Humbert theorem which shows that the nontrivial elements of the Picard group are precisely those coming from the above construction. Our calculations finally give an estimate for the set of positive line bundles for such varieties.

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