Varieties with minimal secant degree and linear systems of maximal dimension on surfaces

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2004.10.008zbMATH Open1086.14043arXivmath/0406494OpenAlexW2109659704MaRDI QIDQ817569FDOQ817569

Authors: Francesco Russo, Ciro Ciliberto 

Publication date: 16 March 2006

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we prove, using a refinement of Terracini's Lemma, a sharp lower bound for the degree of (higher) secant varieties to a given projective variety, which extends the well known lower bound for the degree of a variety in terms of its dimension and codimension in projective space. Moreover we study varieties for which the bound is attained proving some general properties related to tangential projections, e.g. these varieties are rational. In particular we completely classify surfaces (and curves) for which the bound is attained. It turns out that these surfaces enjoy some maximality properties for their embedding dimension in terms of their degree or sectional genus. This is related to classical beautiful results of Castelnuovo and Enriques that we revise here in terms of adjunction theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0406494

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zbMATH Keywords

linear systemssecant varietylinear projectionhigher secant varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Divisors, linear systems, invertible sheaves (14C20) Rational and unirational varieties (14M20) Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05)

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