A note on a result of Lanteri about the class of a polarized surface (Q290926)

Let \(S \subset \mathbb{P}^N\) be a smooth complex projective surfaces, \(H\) the divisor providing the embedding and \(m\) its class, that is, the degree of the dual variety of \(S \subset \mathbb{P}^N\). In [\textit{A. Lanteri}, Arch. Math. 45, 79--85 (1985; Zbl 0557.14018)] it was shown that when the class is bigger than the degree, \(m>H^2\), and the sectional genus \(g\) is bigger than or equal to two, then \(m \geq H^2+2g+1\). The paper under review (see Theorem 1) improves the bound in one unity to be sharp, that is \(m \geq H^2+2g+2\), and surfaces reaching the equality are classified: they are ruled surfaces over smooth elliptic curves and \(H\) is precisely described.