Singular Poisson-Kähler geometry of Scorza varieties and their secant varieties

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2005.03.007MaRDI QIDQ2486078zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Publication date 5 August 2005

Published in Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0405165

exotic Kähler structure Scorza variety Severi variety

Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05) Poisson algebras (17B63) Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Associated geometries of Jordan algebras (17C37) Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20)

Abstract: Each Scorza variety and its secant varieties in the ambient projective space are identified, in the realm of singular Poisson-Kaehler geometry, in terms of projectivizations of holomorphic nilpotent orbits in suitable Lie algebras of hermitian type, the holomorphic nilpotent orbits, in turn, being affine varieties. The ambient projective space acquires an exotic Kaehler structure, the closed stratum being the Scorza variety and the closures of the higher strata its secant varieties. In this fashion, the secant varieties become exotic projective varieties. In the rank 3 case, the four regular Scorza varieties coincide with the four critical Severi varieties. In the standard cases, the Scorza varieties and their secant varieties arise also via Kaehler reduction. An interpretation in terms of constrained mechanical systems is included.

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For any integer \(k\geq 2\) a \(k\)-Scorza variety is a nonsingular projective variety \(X\) in \(\mathbb{P}^{m}\mathbb{C}\) of maximal dimension among all varieties whose \(\left( k-1\right) \)-secant variety (that is, the closure of the union of all \(k\)-dimensional projective spaces in \(\mathbb{P}^{m}\mathbb{ C}\) which contain \(k+1\) independent points of \(X\)) is not the entire space. With the exception of \(X=\)Ad\(\left( \mathfrak{e}_{6\left( -78\right) }\right) /\left( \text{SO}\left( 10,\mathbb{R}\right) \cdot \text{SO}\left( 2,\mathbb{R}\right) \right) \subset \mathbb{P}^{26}\mathbb{C}\) each \(k\) -Scorza variety belongs to one of five different forms. The forms of the form \(\mathbb{P}^{k}\mathbb{C\subset P}^{k\left( k+3\right) /2}\mathbb{C}\), \( \mathbb{P}^{k}\mathbb{C\times P}^{k}\mathbb{C\subset P}^{k\left( k+2\right) } \mathbb{C}\) and \(G_{2}\left( \mathbb{C}^{2\left( k+1\right) }\right) \subset \mathbb{P}^{k\left( 2k+3\right) }\mathbb{C},\) along with the \(X\) above are said to be regular; the others, \(\mathbb{P}^{k}\mathbb{C\times P}^{k+1} \mathbb{C\subset P}^{k^{2}+3k+1}\mathbb{C}\), and \(G_{2}\left( \mathbb{C} ^{\left( 2k+3\right) }\right) \subset \mathbb{P}^{2k^{2}+5K+2}\mathbb{C}\) are non-regular. For a \(k\)-Scorza variety \(X\) in ambient projective space \(\mathbb{P}^{m} \mathbb{C}\) the authors show that \(X\) gives rise to an exotic normal Kähler structure on \(\mathbb{P}^{m}\mathbb{C}\). In fact, there is a sequence \( Q_{1}\subset Q_{2}\subset \cdots \subset Q_{k+1}=\mathbb{P}^{m}\mathbb{C}\) of normal Kähler spaces where \(Q_{1}\) coincides with \(X\) and \(Q_{\rho }\) is a projective determinantal variety in \(\mathbb{P}^{m}\mathbb{C}\). Furthermore, \(Q_{\rho }=S^{\rho }\left( Q_{1}\right) \) for all \(2\leq \rho \leq k,\) i.e. \(Q_{\rho }\) is the \(\rho ^{\text{th}}\) secant variety of \(Q_{1} \) in \(\mathbb{P}^{m}\mathbb{C},\) \(Q_{\rho -1}\) is the singular locus of \( Q_{\rho },\) and this structure restricts to a Kähler structure on \(Q_{1}\) which includes the standard Hermitian space structure. When is addition \(X\) is regular we also have that \(Q_{k}\) is a projective hypersurface of degree \( k+1.\) In the case where \(k=3\) the four regular \(k\)-Scorza varieties coincide with the four critical Severi varieties, that is, the \(Q_{1}\) in this case is a critical Severi variety.

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