A characterization of the complex projective plane (Q1902494)

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A characterization of the complex projective plane
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    A characterization of the complex projective plane (English)
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    26 May 1997
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    The author gives the following interesting characterization of the projective plane, a ``first order analogue of Reiss condition''. Let \(S\) be a smooth projective surface over the complex field. Let \(D\) be a smooth irreducible curve on \(S\). Assume that either \(2D\) is very ample on \(S\) or \(S\) is minimal and \(D^2 >0\). Let \(D(1)\) be the first infinitesimal neighborhood of \(D\), \(D(1) = (D, {\mathcal O}_S/I^2)\), where \(I\) is the defining sheaf of \(D\) in \(S\). Then the restriction morphism \(\text{Pic} (S) \to \text{Pic} (D(1))\) is surjective if and only if \(S\) is the projective plane and \(D\) is a line. It would be an interesting question to extend the characterization above to higher dimensions.
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    characterization of the complex projective plane
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    Picard group
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    infinitesimal neighborhood
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