An infinitesimal study of secant space divisors. Appendix by Trygve Johnsen

Divisors, linear systems, invertible sheaves (14C20) Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus (14H45) Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05)

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The author studies \(e\)-secants to a smooth irreducible complete curve \(C\) defined over an algebraically closed field, considered as points in the \(e\)'th symmetric product \(C^{(e)}\) of \(C\). Such a secant is called an \((e-f-1)\)--space divisor for a linear system \(g_d^n\) if \(n\geq e-f\) and \(\text{dim}[g_d^n(D)] =n-e-f\). When \(g_d^n\) defines an embedding into a projective space \(\mathbb{P}^n\) we have that, when \(D\) is an \((e-f-1)\)--space divisor for \(g_d^n\), then the points of \(D\) span a subspace \(\langle D\rangle\) of \(\mathbb{P}^n\) of dimension \((e-f-1)\), and the intersection \(\langle D\rangle \cap C\) in \(\mathbb{P}^n\) will have length at least \(D\). In the article under review very precise information is given about the tangent space of the subscheme \(V_{e}^{e-f}\) of \(C^{(e)}\) consisting of \(e\)-secant \((e-f-1)\)--space divisors. The dimension is determined, thus answering a question by the author. Several of the results are similar to results of A. Laudal, in a slightly different setting. In an appendix T. Johnson gives a natural description for some of the results in terms of tangent spaces of natural subschemes of grassmannians.

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