A bound on the degree of schemes defined by quadratic equations

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Abstract: We consider complex projective schemes XsubsetBbbPr defined by quadratic equations and satisfying a technical hypothesis on the fibres of the rational map associated to the linear system of quadrics defining X. Our assumption is related to the syzygies of the defining equations and, in particular, it is weaker than properties N2, N2,2 and K2. In this setting, we show that the degree, d, of XsubsetBbbPr is bounded by a function of its codimension, c, whose asymptotic behaviour is given by 2c/sqrt[4]pic, thus improving the obvious bound dleq2c. More precisely, we get the bound . Furthermore, if X satisfies property Np or N2,p we obtain the better bound . Some classification results are also given when equality holds.









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