Determinantal hypersurfaces.

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DOI10.1307/MMJ/1030132707zbMATH Open1076.14534arXivmath/9910030OpenAlexW4205974647MaRDI QIDQ5954569FDOQ5954569


Authors: Arnaud Beauville Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 4 February 2002

Published in: Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let X be a smooth hypersurface in projective space. We discuss in this paper when X can be defined by an equation det M = 0 (resp. pf M = 0), where M is a matrix (resp. a skew-symmetric matrix) with homogeneous entries. Standard homological algebra methods show that this is equivalent to produce a line bundle (resp. a rank 2 vector bundle) E of a certain type on X . We discuss a number of applications for hypersurfaces of small dimension. An Appendix by F.-O. Schreyer proves (using Macaulay 2) that a general form of degree d in P^3 (resp. P^4) can be written as the pfaffian of a skew-symmetric (2d)x(2d) matrix with linear entries in the expected range, that is d < 16 (resp. d < 6).


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9910030




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