An analogue of Max Noether's theorem
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instance of: scholarly article
title: An analogue of Max Noether's theorem
zbMATH Open document ID: 0589.14034
DOI: 10.1215/S0012-7094-85-05235-4
author: Lawrence Ein
published in: Duke Mathematical Journal
publication date: 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: It is a general hope that basic properties of complete intersections remain true for dependency loci of sections of an ample vector bundle. Along this line the author proves the following generalisation of Max Noether's theorem [see \textit{P. Deligne}, Sém. Géom. algébr. 1967- 1968, SGA 7 II, Lect. Notes Math. 340, exposé XIX, 328-340 (1973; Zbl 0269.14019)]: if E is a (-2)-regular rank r vector bundle on \(P^ n\), (n\(\geq 3\), \(r\geq n-2)\), \(T\subset H^ 0(E)\) is a generic \((r+3-n)\)- subspace and X is the locus of those \(x\in P^ n\) where the map \(T\to E(x)\) has rank at most \(r+2-n\), then Pic(X) is either \({\mathbb{Z}}\), generated by a hyperplane section or \({\mathbb{Z}}\oplus {\mathbb{Z}}\) (according to whether \(r+3-n=1\) or \(r+3-n\geq 2)\) unless E is one of the following ''exceptional'' vector bundles \(E={\mathcal O}_{{\mathbb{P}}^ 3}(2)\), \({\mathcal O}_{{\mathbb{P}}^ 3}(3)\), \({\mathcal O}_{{\mathbb{P}}^ 4}(2)\oplus {\mathcal O}_{{\mathbb{P}}^ 4}(2)\) (these are precisely the exceptions which occur in the classical Max Noether theorem 1) As an application the author computes Pic(X) for certain generic weighted complete intersection surfaces, thus generalizing a result of \textit{J. Steenbrink} [Algebr. geom., Proc. internat. Conf., La Rábida/Spain 1981, Lect. Notes Math. 961, 302-313 (1982; Zbl 0507.14025)].
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14C22
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14F05
zbMATH DE Number: 3946340
zbMATH Keywords: Picard group
zbMATH Keywords: complete intersections
zbMATH Keywords: sections of an ample vector bundle
zbMATH Keywords: Pic
reviewed by: Alexandru Buium
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
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