On hyperquadrics containing projective varieties

DOI10.1515/FORUM-2019-0275MaRDI QIDQ2199334zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Euisung Park

Publication date 16 September 2020

Published in Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04859

zbMATH Keywords

Castelnuovo theoryprojective varieties of low degreequadratic equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05) Varieties of low degree (14N25)

Abstract: Classical Castelnuovo Lemma shows that the number of linearly independent quadratic equations of a nondegenerate irreducible projective variety of codimension $c$ is at most $c+1choose2$ and the equality is attained if and only if the variety is of minimal degree. Also G. Fano's generalization of Castelnuovo Lemma implies that the next case occurs if and only if the variety is a del Pezzo variety. Recently, these results are extended to the next case. This paper is intended to complete the classification of varieties satisfying at least $c+1choose2-3$ linearly independent quadratic equations. Also we investigate the zero set of those quadratic equations and apply our results to projective varieties of degree $geq2c+1$.

Review text

Let \(\Bbbk\) denote an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. Let \(X \subset \mathbb{P}^{n+c}_{\Bbbk}\) be a non-degenerate irreducible projective variety of dimension \(n\) and degree \(d\). Let \(a_2(X)\) denote the number of linearly independent quadratic equations of \(X\). By classical results of Castelnuovo it follows that \(a_2(X) \leq \binom{c+1}{2}\) with equality if and only if \(X\) is of minimal degree resp. by Fano if \(c \geq 2\) then \(a_2(X) = \binom{c+1}{2} -1\) if and only if a general linear curve section of \(X\) is linearly normal of arithmetic genus one. In his paper [Forum Math. 27, No. 2, 843--875 (2015; Zbl 1310.14047)] the author has shown that \(a_2(X) \leq \binom{c+1}{2} - \min \{d-c-1,c\}\). In the paper under review the author classifies the cases of \(a_2(X) = \binom{c+1}{2} -k\) for \(k = 2,3\). Among others the following is shown: (1) If \(c \geq 4\), then \(a_2(X) = \binom{c+1}{2} - 2\) if and only if either \(d = c+2\) and \(\operatorname{depth} (X) = n\) or else \(d= c+3\) and \(\operatorname{depth} (X) = n +1\). (2) If \(c \geq 4\) and \(a_2(X) = \binom{c+1}{2} - 3\) if and only if \(X\) satisfies one of the following conditions: (i) \(d = c+2\) and \(\operatorname{depth} (X) = n-1 > 0\), (ii) \(d= c+3\) and \(X\) is a variety of maximal sectional regularity, (iii) \(d = c+3\), the arithmetic genus of \(X\) is one and \(\operatorname{depth} (X) = n\), (iv) \(d = c+4\) and \(\operatorname{depth} (X) = n+1\). Moreover, the author investigates the zero set of those quadratic equations and applies the results to projective varieties of degree \( \geq 2c+1\).

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