Papers, preprints, and talk notes

This is a rather up-to-date list of my papers and preprints, in reverse chronological order of writing (not always the same as posting). You can also check the listings in the arXiv, and the reviews in Mathscinet or Zentralblatt.

31. (with R. Salvati Manni) On the Coble quartic.
30. (with D. Zakharov) The zero section of the universal semiabelian variety, and the double ramification cycle.
29. (with D. Zakharov) The double ramification cycle and the theta divisor.
    Proceedings of the AMS, to appear
28. (with K. Hulek) Geometry of theta divisors - a survey.
    A Celebration of Algebraic Geometry, Clay Mathematics Proceedings, Volume published on the occasion of Joe Harris' 60th birthday, to appear
27. (with G. Farkas, R. Salvati Manni, and S. Verra ) Singularities of theta divisors and the geometry of A5.
    Journal of European Mathematical Society, to appear
26. (with I. Krichever) Foliations on the moduli space of curves, vanishing in cohomology, and Calogero-Moser curves.
25. (with R. Salvati Manni) The Prym map on divisors, and the slope of A5 (with an appendix by K. Hulek).
24. (with K. Hulek) The class of the locus of intermediate Jacobians of cubic threefolds.
    Inventiones Mathematicae 190 (2012) 1, 119-168.
23. (with K. Hulek) Principally polarized semi-abelic varieties of small torus rank, and the Andreotti-Mayer loci.
    PAMQ (Viehweg memorial issue) 7 (2011) 4, 1309-1360.
22. (with R. Salvati Manni) The Scorza correspondence in genus 3.
    Manuscripta Mathematica, to appear.
21. The Schottky problem.
    Current Developments in Algebraic Geometry, 129-164, MSRI Publications 59, Cambridge Univ. Press (2012).
20. (with I. Krichever) The universal Whitham hierarchy and the geometry of the moduli space of pointed Riemann surfaces.
    Geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces, 111-129. Surveys in Differential Geometry 14 (2009).
19. (with R. Salvati Manni) The superstring cosmological constant and the Schottky form in genus 5.
    American Journal of Mathematics 133 (2011) 4, 1007-1027.
18. (with R. Salvati Manni) The vanishing of two-point functions for three-loop superstring scattering amplitudes.
    Communications in Mathematical Physics 294 (2010) 2, 343-352.
17. (with R. Salvati Manni) The loci of abelian varieties with points of high multiplicity on the theta divisor.
    Geometriae Dedicata 139 (2009) 1, 233-247.
16. A special case of the Γ00 conjecture.
    In Liaison, Schottky Problem and Invariant Theory: Remembering Federico Gaeta. Progress in Mathematics 280 (2010).
15. Superstring scattering amplitudes in higher genus.
    Communications in Mathematical Physics 287 (2009) 2, 749-767.
14. (with C. Erdenberger and K. Hulek) Some intersection numbers of divisors on toroidal compactifications of Ag.
    Journal of Algebraic Geometry 19 (2010), 99-132.
13. (with I. Krichever) Integrable discrete Schrodinger equations and a characterization of Prym varieties by a pair of quadrisecants.
    Duke Mathematical Journal 152 (2010), 317-371.
12. (with R. Salvati Manni) Singularities of the theta divisor at points of order two.
    International Mathematics Research Notices (2007).
11. Geometry of Ag and its compactifications.
    Algebraic Geometry: Seattle 2005, Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics 80, 193-234.
10. (with R. Salvati Manni) Jacobians with a vanishing theta-null in genus 4.
    Israel Journal of Mathematics 164 (2008) 1, 303-315.
9. (with D. Lehavi) Some intersections in the Poincaré bundle, and the universal theta divisor on the moduli space of (semi)abelian varieties.
    International Mathematics Research Notices (2008).
8. (with C. Erdenberger and K. Hulek) Intersection theory of toroidal compactifications of A4.
    Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 38 (2006) 3, 396-400.
7. Multiplier ideals in algebraic geometry.
    In Snowbird lectures in Algebraic Geometry (edited by R. Vakil), Contemporary Mathematics 388, AMS 2005, 89-106.
6. (with R. Salvati Manni) Theta functions of arbitrary order and their derivatives.
    Journal fur die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelle's Journal), 590 (2006), 31-43.
5. (with R. Salvati Manni) Two generalizations of Jacobi's derivative formula.
    Mathematics Research Letters 12 (2005) 6, 921-932.
4. (with R. Salvati Manni) Gradients of odd theta functions.
    Journal fur die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelle's Journal) 573 (2004), 43-59.
3. The degree of the Jacobian locus and the Schottky problem.
2. Cubic equations for the hyperelliptic locus.
    Asian Journal of Mathematics 8 (2004) 1, 161-172 (special issue dedicated to Prof. Yum-Tong Siu on his 60th birthday).
    The PDF incorporates the erratum 9 (2005) 2, 273.
1. An explicit upper bound for Weil-Petersson volumes of the moduli spaces of punctured Riemann surfaces.
    Mathematische Annalen 321 (2001) 1, 1-13.

Here are some notes from my past talks.

5. Printable and on-screen click-through PDF   Superstring scattering amplitudes and modular forms (based on papers 15,18,19) Hannover, January 2010, and Berlin, July 2010.
4. Printable and on-screen click-through PDF The Schottky Problem (mentioning some results of papers 2,3,10,12,13,16,19) MSRI classical algebraic geometry workshop, January 2009.
3. Printable and on-screen click-through PDF Effective algebraic Schottky problem (based on papers 2 and 3). III Iberoamerican congress on geometry, June 2004.
2. Pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Differential and algebraic equations for theta constants (based on paper 3). AMS meeting, November 2001.
1. Pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Weil-Petersson volumes of moduli of Riemann surfaces (based on paper 1). AMS meeting, March 2000.

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