Works on Algebraic Geometry added this month

The Millennium Meeting, Paris, 24 May 2000, at which the seven problems were announced.

A proof of Raynaud's theorem: every finite flat commutative group scheme over a locally noetherian base embeds, Zariski-locally, as a closed subgroup of an abelian scheme.

An example, due to Serre, of a smooth projective surface in positive characteristic whose Picard scheme fails to be reduced, worked out via the two governing dimension inequalities.

A rigidity condition on schemes, strictly stronger than smoothness, introduced with examples and a look at where it fails to be geometric — no known application, just a curiosity.

Every finite flat commutative group scheme over a noetherian local ring is the torsion component of the Picard scheme of a smooth projective scheme with 3-dimensional fibers, built as a quotient of a complete intersection. An application: Hodge numbers that jump in a smooth projective family.