A remark on Zak's theorem on tangencies

DOI10.4310/MRL.2011.V18.N4.A15zbMATH Open1275.14042arXiv1203.0208OpenAlexW2964019195MaRDI QIDQ2391556FDOQ2391556

Authors: José Carlos Sierra 

Publication date: 5 August 2013

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a slightly different formulation of Zak's theorem on tangencies as well as some applications. In particular, we obtain a better bound on the dimension of the dual variety of a manifold and we classify extremal and next-to-extremal cases when its secant variety does not fill up the ambient projective space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.0208

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zbMATH Keywords

Segre varietydual varietysecant varietytangential varietyscrolldimension of the secant variety

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Intersection theory, characteristic classes, intersection multiplicities in algebraic geometry (14C17) Transcendental methods, Hodge theory (algebro-geometric aspects) (14C30) Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05) Picard groups (14C22) Special varieties (14M99) Adjunction problems (14N30)

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