Measures of irrationality for hypersurfaces of large degree

DOI10.1112/S0010437X17007436zbMATH Open1387.14118arXiv1511.01359MaRDI QIDQ4590945FDOQ4590945

Authors: Pietro De Poi, Lawrence Ein, Robert Lazarsfeld, Brooke Ullery, Francesco Bastianelli 

Publication date: 21 November 2017

Published in: Compositio Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study various measures of irrationality for hypersurfaces of large degree in projective space and other varieties. These include the least degree of a rational covering of projective space, and the minimal gonality of a covering family of curves. The theme is that positivity properties of canonical bundles lead to lower bounds on these invariants. In particular, we prove that if X is a very general smooth hypersurface of dimension n and degree d ge 2n+1, then any dominant rational mapping from X to projective n-space must have degree at least d-1. We also propose a number of open problems, and we show how our methods lead to simple new proofs of results of Ran and Beheshti-Eisenbud.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.01359

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zbMATH Keywords

hypersurfacespositivitydegree of irrationalitycovering gonality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rational and birational maps (14E05) Coverings in algebraic geometry (14E20) Hypersurfaces and algebraic geometry (14J70)

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