An inequality for the 1-rank of a scalar web SW(d,2,r) and scalar webs of maximum 1-rank (Q760018)

Let W(d,2,r) be a d-web of codimension r on a (2r)-dimensional manifold \(X^{2r}\) given by d foliations \(X_ a\), \(a=1,...,d\). The foliation \(X_ a\) can be given by d completely integrable systems of Pfaffian equations \(\omega_ a^ i=0\), \(i=1,...,r\), where the forms \(\omega_ 1^ i\), \(\omega^ i_ 2\) are basis forms of \(X^{2r}\) and \(-\omega_ 3^ i=\omega_ 1^ i+\omega^ i_ 2\), \(-\omega^ i_{\alpha}=\lambda^ i_{\alpha j}\omega^ i_ 1+\omega^ i_ 2\), \(\alpha =4,...,d\). If \(\lambda^ i_{\alpha j}=\delta^ i_ j\lambda_{\alpha}\), a web W(d,2,r) is called scalar and denoted by SW(d,2,r). The 1-rank of a web W(d,2,r) is the number \(R_ 1\) of linearly independent d-tuples of functions \(\phi_ 1,...,\phi_ d\) which are not simultaneously constant on \(X^{2r}\), constant on \(X_ 1,...,X_ D\) and satisfy the equation \(\sum^{d}_{a=1}\phi_ a=const.\) Conditions for a web W(d,2,r) to be of maximum 1-rank are found and the upper bound \(\pi\) (d,2,r) of \(R_ 1\) is found for SW(d,2,r): \(\pi\) (d,2,r)\(=\left( \begin{matrix} d+r-1\\ r+1\end{matrix} \right)-(d-1)\). It is proved that webs SW(d,2,r), \(d\geq 3\), of maximum 1-rank are parallelizable, that the parallelizability is necessary and sufficient for W(d,2,r) to be of maximum 1-rank if \(d=3\) and only sufficient if \(d>3\). A web SW(d,2,r) of maximum 1-rank is algebraizable of some special kind: it is equivalent to a d-web on the Grassmannian \(G(1,r+1)\) produced by d foliations of Schubert varieties where points of each Schubert variety are images of straight lines of a projective space \(P^{r+1}\) belonging to bundles whose vertices are located on one out of d hyperplanes of a pencil of hyperplanes with an (r-1)-dimensional vertex. At the end of the paper explicit expressions for the functions \(\phi_ a\) appearing in the 1-rank problem are obtained and their level sets are characterized.