Linear subspaces in cubic hypersurfaces

Abstract: We prove that for any cubic polynomial of slice rank

r

, the intersection of all linear subspaces of minimal codimension contained in the corresponding hypersurface has codimension

l e r^{2} + f r a c (r + 1)^{2} 4 + r

in the affine space. This is deduced from the following result of independent interest. Consider the intersection

I

of linear ideals

(P_{i})

in

k [x_{1}, l d o t s, x_{n}]

, with

d i m P_{i} l e r

. Then the number of quadratic generators of

I

is

l e r^{2}

.

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