On the Debarre-de Jong and Beheshti-Starr conjectures on hypersurfaces with too many lines

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1291213957MaRDI QIDQ621291zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Orsola Tommasi, J. M. Landsberg

Publication date 2 February 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4158

zbMATH Keywords

lines on hypersurfacessingularitiestangent spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hypersurfaces and algebraic geometry (14J70) Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05)

Abstract: We show that the Debarre-de Jong conjecture that the Fano scheme of lines on a smooth hypersurface of degree at most n in n-dimensional projective space must have its expected dimension, and the Beheshti-Starr conjecture that bounds the dimension of the Fano scheme of lines for hypersurfaces of degree at least n in n-dimensional projective space, reduce to determining if the intersection of the top Chern classes of certain vector bundles is nonzero.

Review text

Let \(X \subset \mathbb{P}^n\) be a projective hypersurface of degree \(d\) over a closed field of characteristic zero. It was conjectured by Debarre and de Jong that if \(X\) is smooth and \(d \leq n\) then the Fano scheme of lines on \(X\) must have its expected dimension, say \(2n-d-3\). The paper under review proposes a more general conjecture which implies the previous one (just considering hyperplane sections in the case \(d=n\)): if \(d \geq n\) and an irreducible component of the family of lines on \(X\) of dimension \(\geq n-2\) is considered then by any point in the locus of this family it passes a line of the family meeting the singular locus of \(X\). This conjecture also implies a special case of a conjecture of Beheshti and Starr about linear spaces on hypersurfaces. The paper under review shows that the proposed conjecture reduces to determining if the intersection of the top Chern classes of certain vector bundles over the cone swept out by lines by a point is nonzero. The study of certain positive properties of these vector bundles allows the authors to prove their conjecture in some special situations. Some interesting examples are also provided.

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