Higher order selfdual toric varieties

DOI10.1007/S10231-017-0637-4MaRDI QIDQ2409374zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ragni Piene, Alicia Dickenstein

Publication date 11 October 2017

Published in Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. Serie Quarta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05189, http://hdl.handle.net/11336/55563

zbMATH Keywords

dual varietiesprojective varietySegretoric varietyVeronese

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Varieties and morphisms (14A10) Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25)

Abstract: The notion of higher order dual varieties of a projective variety, introduced in cite{P83}, is a natural generalization of the classical notion of projective duality. In this paper we present geometric and combinatorial characterizations of those equivariant projective toric embeddings that satisfy higher order selfduality. We also give several examples and general constructions. In particular, we highlight the relation with Cayley-Bacharach questions and with Cayley configurations.

Review text

Let \(X \subset {{\mathbb P}}^N\) be a projective algebraic variety of dimension \(n\) over an algebraically closed field \(K\) of characteristic zero. A hyperplane \(H\) is said to be tangent to \(X\) to the order \(k\) at a smooth point \(x\), when \(H\) contains the \(k\)-th osculating space to \(X\) at \(x\). The \(k\)-th dual variety \(X^{(k)}\) is the Zariski closure in the dual projective space \(({{\mathbb P}}^N)^\vee \) of all hyperplanes tangent to \(X\) to the order \(k\) at some smooth point \(x\). \(X\) is said to be \(k\)-selfdual if there exists a linear isomorphism between \( {{\mathbb P}}^N \) and \(({{\mathbb P}}^N)^\vee \) that sends \(X\) to \(X^{(k)}\). The purpose of this paper is to investigate different characterizations of higher selfdual toric varieties in terms of its parametrization. This is done in Theorems 2.7 and 3.4. In particular the authors show that any general configuration of \(\binom{n+k}{k}+1\) points is \(k\)-selfdual and that Veronese-Segre embeddings give smooth selfdual toric varieties in any dimension (see Theorem 5.14).

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