On manifolds swept out by high dimensional hypersurfaces (Q494094)

A natural problem in (embedded) complex projective geometry is that of classification of embedded manifolds containing a family of \textit{some kind special} embedded manifolds through their general point. For instance, families of degree \(d\) hypersurfaces, that is, manifolds of codimension less than or equal to one in its linear span. Results when \(d=1\), \(2\) and \(d=3\) can be found in the literature (see the Introduction of the paper under review and references therein). These results show that, typically, these varieties swept out by hypersurfaces are either scrolls or \textit{fibered} in the hypersurfaces. This is exactly the situation when \(d=4\) as proved in Thm. 2: \(X \subset \mathbb{P}^N\) of dimension \(n \geq 7\) containing a smooth quartic of dimension \(m\geq [n/2]+4\) through a general point of \(X\) has a contraction of an extremal ray of relative dimension at least \(m\) which either is a scroll or its general fibers are quartics. Moreover, assuming Hartshorne's conjecture on complete intersections (or a weaker statement, see Conj. 3), the same result works (see Thm. 1) for any \(d\) under the assumptions \(\dim(X)\geq 3d-1\) and \(m \geq [(2n-1)/3]+d\).