Determinant of complexes and higher Hessians

DOI10.1007/S002080050032MaRDI QIDQ1359527zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fernando Cukierman

Publication date 17 September 1997

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9601001

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic curvecomplete intersectionflexesHessian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus (14H45) Complete intersections (14M10) Determinantal varieties (14M12) Questions of classical algebraic geometry (51N35)

Abstract: Let $XsubsetBbb{P}^r$ be a smooth algebraic curve in projective space, over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. For each $minBbbN$, the $m$-flexes of $X$ are defined as the points where the osculating hypersurface of degree $m$ has higher contact than expected, and a hypersurface $HsubsetBbb{P}^r$ is called a $m$-Hessian if it cuts $X$ along its $m$-flexes. When $X$ is a complete intersection, we give an expression for a (rational) $m$-Hessian as the Div (in the sense of Grothendieck-Knudsen-Mumford) of a complex of graded free modules naturally associated to $X$. The construction of this complex involves relating sheaves of differential operators on a scheme and a subscheme, and higher Euler sequences on projective space.

Review text

Let \(X\subset\mathbb{P}^r\) be a smooth algebraic curve in projective space, over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. For each \(m\in\mathbb{N}\), the \(m\)-flexes of \(X\) are defined as the points where the osculating hypersurface of degree \(m\) has higher contact than expected, and a hypersurface \(H\subset\mathbb{P}^r\) is called a \(m\)-hessian if it cuts \(X\) along its \(m\)-flexes. When \(X\) is a complete intersection, we give an expression for a (rational) \(m\)-hessian as the determinant of a complex of graded free modules naturally associated to \(X\).

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