Congruences of lines with one-dimensional focal locus

MaRDI QIDQ1769833zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Pietro De Poi

Publication date 30 March 2005

Published in Portugaliae Mathematica. Nova Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0407339, https://eudml.org/doc/51458

zbMATH Keywords

focus of a family of linesGrassmannian of lines in a projective space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05) Questions of classical algebraic geometry (51N35)

Abstract: In this article we obtain the classification of the congruences of lines with one-dimensional focal locus. It turns out that one can restrict to study the case of $mathbb{P}^3$.

Review text

A congruence \(B\) of lines in \(\mathbb P^n\) is an \((n-1)\)-dimensional family of lines. Its degree is the number of lines of \(B\) through a general point. Roughly speaking, the focal locus \(F\) of \(B \subset \mathbb P^n\) is the set of critical values of the projection \(\Lambda \to \mathbb P^n\), where \(\Lambda\) is the total space of \(B\). First, the author proves \(\dim (F) \geq (n-1)/2\), unless \(B\) is the set of all lines through a fixed \(P\in X\). His main result is the complete classification of all \(B\) such that \(F\) is one-dimensional (and hence \(n\leq 3\)); if \(n=2\), then \(B\) is the dual of an irreducible curve (not a line); if \(n=3\), then \(B\) has order one and there are two cases with \(F\) reducible and one case with \(F\) irreducible.

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