Degenerate (r-2)-dimensional subvarieties through the generic hyperplane section of a reduced irreducible complex curve in P^ r

DOI10.1007/BF02568440MaRDI QIDQ752797zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Caterina Cumino, Giulio Tedeschi

Publication date 1990

Published in Manuscripta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/155507

zbMATH Keywords

generic plane curvehyperplane sectionuniform position property

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Plane and space curves (14H50) Low codimension problems in algebraic geometry (14M07) Complete intersections (14M10)

Review text

Let X be a set of points in \({\mathbb{P}}^{r-1}\) (projective space over \({\mathbb{C}}):\) when is it the hyperplane section of a (good) curve in \({\mathbb{P}}^ r ?\) \textit{J. Harris} [Math. Ann. 249, 191-204 (1980; Zbl 0449.14006)] shows that a necessary condition is the uniform position property (UPP): the set X of n distinct points has UPP iff, for all \(t\in {\mathbb{N}}\) and all \(m\leq n\), every subset \(X'\) of X of m points imposes the same number of conditions to the linear system of the hypersurfaces of degree \( t.\) It is well known that UPP does not force at all a set X to be a hyperplane section. - The main result of the paper is an additional necessary condition for X to be a hyperplane section. Let C be a reduced irreducible curve, X its generic hyperplane section, S the generic 2-codimensional subvariety of \({\mathbb{P}}^ r\) which is degenerate (that is, lies on a hyperplane) and contains X. Then S is smooth at the points of X. - For \({\mathbb{P}}^ 3\) this means that the generic plane curve S through the plane section X of C is smooth at all points of X. Examples are then discussed for \({\mathbb{P}}^ 3\). For instance a set X of points with UPP is given in 2-space, such that X is the section of an irreducible curve but cannot be the ``general one.

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