Legendrian subvarieties of projective space

DOI10.1007/S10711-005-9027-YMaRDI QIDQ2498412zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jarosław Buczyński

Publication date 16 August 2006

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0503528

zbMATH Keywords

complex contact varietyFano manifoldhomogeneous varietyLegendrian varietysymplectic formsymplectic group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special varieties (14M99) Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights) (17B10) Homogeneous spaces (22F30) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

Abstract: I prove that every smooth legendrian variety generated by quadrics is a homogeneous variety and further I give a list of all such legendrian varieties. A review of the subject is included, illustrated by examples. Another result is that no complete intersection is a legendrian variety.

Review text

Legendrian subvarieties arise in the study of holomorphic contact manifolds. Given a complex projective variety \(Y\), the projectivisation of its tangent bundle yields a contact manifold. Conjecturally, every projective complex contact manifold arises either from this construction or from a minimal nilpotent orbit of the adjoint action of a complex simple Lie group on its Lie algebra. It is known that a projective complex contact manifold not belonging to the first class is necessarily a Fano variety with \(b_2=1\). Now a Fano contact manifold with \(b_2=1\) induces a Legendrian subvariety of a projective space. Understanding these Legendrian subvarieties could lead to a proof of the aformentioned conjecture on the classification of projective complex contact manifolds. The article provides a step in this direction by classifiying those smooth Legendrian varieties whose ideal is generated by quadratic polynomials. It is shown that such varieties are homogeneous. Another result describes Legendrian varieties which are complete intersections.

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