Multi-secant lemma

DOI10.1007/S11856-010-0045-6MaRDI QIDQ611029zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Mina Teicher, J. Y. Kaminski, A. Ya Belov

Publication date 13 December 2010

Published in Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03789

zbMATH Keywords

Multisecants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hypersurfaces and algebraic geometry (14J70) Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05)

Abstract: We present a new generalization of the classical trisecant lemma. Our approach is quite different from previous generalizations. Let $X$ be an equidimensional projective variety of dimension $d$. For a given $kleqd+1$, we are interested in the study of the variety of $k$-secants. The classical trisecant lemma just considers the case where $k=3$ while elsewhere the case $k=d+2$ is considered. Secants of order from $4$ to $d+1$ provide service for our main result. In this paper, we prove that if the variety of $k$-secants ($kleqd+1$) satisfies the three following conditions: (i) trough every point in $X$, passes at least one $k$-secant, (ii) the variety of $k$-secant satisfies a strong connectivity property that we defined in the sequel, (iii) every $k$-secant is also a ($k+1$)-secant, then the variety $X$ can be embedded into $P^{d+1}$. The new assumption, introduced here, that we called strong connectivity is essential because a naive generalization that does not incorporate this assumption fails as we show in some example. The paper concludes with some conjectures concerning the essence of the strong connectivity assumption.

Review text

The authors provide a new characterization of hypersurfaces in a projective space, which takes care also of the reducible case, in terms of multisecant lines. It is clear that hypersurfaces \(X\) (of degree at least \(4\)) share the following property: for some \(k=3,\dots,\deg(X)-1\), through any point of \(X\) one can find a \(k\)-secant line and every \(k\)-secant line to \(X\) is also a \((k+1)\)-secant line. The authors consider (not necessarily reduced) varieties \(X\) which satisfy the previous condition. They prove that, under some connectivity assumption on the set of multisecant lines, such varieties \(X\) can be embedded as hypersurfaces. The connectivity condition cannot be avoided, otherwise there are counterexamples: one of them is a particular set of four quadric surfaces (cones) in \(\mathbb P^4\).

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