A note on the codimension of the linear section of the Lagrangian-Grassmannian L(6,12)

Publication date: 27 January 2017

Abstract: Consider a

2 n

-dimensional symplectic vector space

E

over an arbitrary field

m a t h b b F

. Given a contraction map

f : w e d g e^{n} E i g h t a r r o w w e d g e^{n - 2} E

such that the Lagrangian--Grassmannian

L (n, 2 n) = G (n, 2 n) c a p m a t h b b P (k e r f)

, where

w e d g e^{r} E

denotes the

r

-th exterior power of

E

and

m a t h b b P (k e r f)

is the projectivization of

k e r f

. In this paper, for a symplectic vector space

E

of dimension

n = 6

, we prove that the surjectivity of the contraction map

f : w e d g e^{6} E i g h t a r r o w w e d g e^{4} E

depends on the characteristic of the base field and we calculate the codimension of the linear section

m a t h b b P (k e r f) s u b s e t e q m a t h b b P (w e d g e^{6} E)

for any characteristic.

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