Varieties n-covered by curves of degree

DOI10.4171/CMH/301zbMATH Open1298.14055arXiv1109.3566MaRDI QIDQ373490FDOQ373490

Authors: Luc Pirio, Francesco Russo 

Publication date: 17 October 2013

Published in: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: As proved recently in [PT], for varieties $X^{r+1}subsetmathbb{P}^N$ such that through $ngeq2$ general points there passes an irreducible curve $C$ of degree $deltageqn-1$ we have $Nleqpi(r,n,delta+r(n-1)+2)$, where $pi(r,n,d)$ is the Castelnuovo-Harris bound function for the geometric genus of an irreducible non-degenerate variety $Y^{r}subsetmathbb{P}^{n+r-1}$ of degree $d$. A lot of examples of varieties as in the title and attaining the previous bound for the embedding dimension are constructed from Castelnuovo varieties and were thus dubbed {it of Castelnuovo type} in [PT], where it is also proved that all extremal varieties as above are of this kind, except possibly when $n>2$, $r>1$ and $delta=2n-3$. One of the main results of the paper is the classification of extremal varieties $X^{r+1}subsetmathbb{P}^{2r+3}$ 3-covered by twisted cubics and not of Castelnuovo type. Interesting examples are provided by the so called {it twisted cubics over complex Jordan algebras of rank 3}, as pointed out by Mukai. By relating to an extremal variety 3-covered by twisted cubics, via tangential projection, a quadro-quadric Cremona transformation in $mathbb{P}^r$ we are able to classify all these object either for $rleq4$ or under the smoothness assumption. In the last case we obtain that they are either smooth rational normal scrolls (hence of Castelnuovo type) or the Segre embeddings of $p^{1}imes{Q}^r$ or one of the four Lagrangian Grassmannians. We end by discussing some open problems pointing towards the equivalence of these apparently unrelated objects: extremal varieties 3-covered by twisted cubics, quadro-quadric Cremona transformations of $mathbb{P}^r$ and complex Jordan algebras of dimension $r+1$ and of rank three.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.3566

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zbMATH Keywords

Jordan algebrarationally connected variety

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rationally connected varieties (14M22) Associated manifolds of Jordan algebras (17C36)

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