On degenerate secant and tangential varieties and local differential geometry

DOI10.1215/S0012-7094-96-08523-3MaRDI QIDQ674639zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors J. M. Landsberg

Publication date 21 January 1998

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9412012

zbMATH Keywords

secant varietytangential variety

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05)

Abstract: We study the local differential geometry of varieties $X^{n}subsetBbbCBbb{P}^{n+a}$ with degenerate secant and tangential varieties. We show that the second fundamental form of a smooth variety with degenerate tangential variety is subject to certain rank restrictions. The rank restrictions imply a slightly refined version of Zak's theorem on linear normality and a short proof of the Zak-Fantecchi theorem on the superadditivity of multisecant defects. We show there is a vector bundle defined over general points of $TX$ whose fibers carry the structure of a Clifford algebra. This structure implies additional restrictions of the size of the secant defect. The Clifford algebra structure, combined with further local computations, yields a new proof of Zak's theorem on Severi varieties that is substantially shorter than the original. We also prove local and global results on the dimension of the Gauss image of degenerate tangential varieties, refining the results in [GH].

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