On complete intersections containing a linear subspace

Abstract: Consider the Fano scheme

F_{k} (Y)

parameterizing

k

-dimensional linear subspaces contained in a complete intersection

Y s u b s e t m a t h b b P^{m}

of multi-degree

u n d e r l i n e d = (d_{1}, l d o t s, d_{s})

. It is known that, if

and

P i_{i = 1}^{s} d_{i} > 2

, for

Y

a general complete intersection as above, then

F_{k} (Y)

has dimension

- t

. In this paper we consider the case

t > 0

. Then the locus

W_{u n d e r l i n e d, k}

of all complete intersections as above containing a

k

-dimensional linear subspace is irreducible and turns out to have codimension

t

in the parameter space of all complete intersections with the given multi-degree. Moreover, we prove that for general

[Y] i n W_{u n d e r l i n e d, k}

the scheme

F_{k} (Y)

is zero-dimensional of length one. This implies that

W_{u n d e r l i n e d, k}

is rational.

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