Duale Varietäten von Fahnenvarietäten. (Dual varieties of flag varieties) (Q579362)

A smooth variety X is called a generalized flag variety if \(X\cong G/P\), where G is a semisimple algebraic group and P is a parabolic subgroup. Given an embedding of X in \({\mathbb{P}}^ N\), denote by \(X^{\vee}\) the dual variety: the goal of this paper is to determine \(\dim (X^{\vee})\). Typically one expects \(X^{\vee}\) to be a hypersurface; the question is therefore to understand the exceptions (for example, \({\mathbb{P}}^ N).\) General results of Holme and Hefez-Kleiman would solve the problem in principle, but lead to complications when specialized here. Therefore, instead, the authors work directly, after observing that the cited work allows them to reduce to the case of complete embeddings. In characteristic \(0,\) with G simply connected and simple, it is natural to expect that most of the exceptions (including \({\mathbb{P}}^ N)\) come from representations which possess no nonconstant invariant polynomial. The only further instance, report the authors, comes from the action of \(Spin_ 9\) on the space of 10-dimensional spinors, where \(X^{\vee}\) has codimension 5.