A remark on Zak's theorem on tangencies

DOI10.4310/MRL.2011.V18.N4.A15MaRDI QIDQ2391556zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors José Carlos Sierra

Publication date 5 August 2013

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

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

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)

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.

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