A genericity theorem for algebraic stacks and essential dimension of hypersurfaces

DOI10.4171/JEMS/411zbMATH Open1282.14004arXiv1103.1611OpenAlexW2167956170WikidataQ117360288 ScholiaQ117360288MaRDI QIDQ388760FDOQ388760

Authors: Zinovy Reichstein, Angelo Vistoli 

Publication date: 7 January 2014

Published in: Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We compute the essential dimension of the functors Forms_{n,d} and Hypersurf_{n, d} of equivalence classes of homogeneous polynomials in n variables and hypersurfaces in P^{n-1}, respectively, over any base field k of characteristic 0. Here two polynomials (or hypersurfaces) over K are considered equivalent if they are related by a linear change of coordinates with coefficients in K. Our proof is based on a new Genericity Theorem for algebraic stacks, which is of independent interest. As another application of the Genericity Theorem, we prove a new result on the essential dimension of the stack of (not necessarily smooth) local complete intersection curves.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.1611

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zbMATH Keywords

hypersurfaceessential dimensiongerbestackgenericity theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Generalizations (algebraic spaces, stacks) (14A20) Hypersurfaces and algebraic geometry (14J70)

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