Varieties with quadratic entry locus. I

DOI10.1007/S00208-008-0318-0zbMATH Open1170.14040arXivmath/0701889OpenAlexW3098248782MaRDI QIDQ1024192FDOQ1024192

Francesco Russo

Publication date: 16 June 2009

Published in: Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Quadratic entry locus manifold of type $delta$ $Xsubsetmathbb{P}^N$ of dimension $ngeq1$ are smooth projective varieties such that the locus described on $X$ by the points spanning secant lines passing through a general point of the secant variety $SXsubseteqmathbb{P}^N$ is a smooth quadric hypersurface of dimension $delta=2n+1-dim(SX)$ equal to the secant defect of $X$. These manifolds appear widely and naturally among projective varieties having special geometric properties and/or extremal tangential behaviour. We prove that, letting $delta=2r_X+1geq3$ or $delta=2r_X+2$, then $2^{r_X}$ divides $n-delta$. This is obtained by the study of the projective geometry of the Hilbert scheme $Y_{x}subsetmathbb(T_x^{*})$ of lines passing through a general point $x$ of $X$, allowing an inductive procedure. The Divisibility Property described above allows unitary and simple proofs of many results on $QEL$-manifolds such as the complete classification of those of type $deltageqn/2$, of Cremona transformation of type $(2,3)$, $(2,5)$. In particular we propose a new and very short proof of the fact that Severi varieties have dimension 2,4, 8 or 16 and also an almost self contained half page proof of their classification due to Zak.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0701889

zbMATH Keywords

varieties with quadratic entry locus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Birational automorphisms, Cremona group and generalizations (14E07) Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05)

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