Remarks on the geometry of the variety of planes of a cubic fivefold

Abstract: This note presents some properties of the variety of planes

F_{2} (X) s u b s e t G (3, 7)

of a cubic

5

-fold

X s u b s e t m a t h b b P^{6}

. A cotangent bundle exact sequence is first derived from the remark made by Iliev and Manivel that

F_{2} (X)

sits as a Lagrangian subvariety of the variety of lines of a cubic

4

-fold, which is a hyperplane section of

X

. Using the sequence, the Gauss map of

F_{2} (X)

is then proven to be an embedding. The last section is devoted to the relation between the variety of osculating planes of a cubic

4

-fold and the variety of planes of the associated cyclic cubic

5

-fold.

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