Threefolds with one apparent double point

. This classical notion dates back to Severi. Smooth threefolds having one apparent double point (shortly OADP threefolds) have been classified in 2004 by Ciliberto, Mella and Russo. In 2011, Ciliberto and Russo have classified normal OADP threefolds such that the so-called fundamental surface is a plane. In this thesis the case in which the fundamental surface is not a plane is considered. A partial classification is given and several examples are presented.

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Let \(X \subset \mathbb{P}^N\) be an irreducible complex projective variety of dimension \(n\), \(N \geq 2n+1\). Since the secant variety of \(X\) has dimension smaller than or equal to \(2n+1\), one can isomorphically project \(X\) to \(X \subset \mathbb{P}^{2n+1}\). If further isomorphic projections are possible then \(X \subset \mathbb{P}^{2n+1}\) is called \textit{secant defective}. The most simple non secant defective projective varieties are those with just one secant line through a general point on \(\mathbb{P}^{2n+1}\), called varieties with \textit{one apparent double point}, \(OADP\) varieties for simplicity. It is a classical problem that of classifying OADP varieties: there is a complete classification in dimension two and in the smooth case of dimension three (see the Introduction of the paper and references therein). The tangential projection from a general point of an OADP variety is birrational and its inverse contracts a hypersurface \(V \subset \mathbb{P}^n\) (\(V\) is called the \textit{fundamental hypersurface}) to the chosen point of projection. In fact, varieties whose general tangent projection is birational are known as \textit{Bronowski varieties} and conjecturally are just the OADP varieties. The paper under review deals with the study of OADP 3-varieties whose fundamental hypersurface is not a plane (in any dimension the case of \(V\) a hyperplane has been considered in [\textit{C. Ciliberto} and \textit{F. Russo}, Sci. China, Math. 54, No. 8, 1561--1575 (2011; Zbl 1246.14068)]). Since \(V\) is known to be a projection to \(\mathbb{P}^3\) of the Veronese quartic surface, then the different degrees of \(V\) are considered: the case \(V\) a quadric in Section 3, \(V\) a cubic in Section 4 and \(V\) a quartic in Section 5. In Thm. 2 the complete classification of normal Bronowski varieties of dimension 3, \(V\) a quadric, is presented, under the additional asssumption of minimality of the degree \(d\) (assumed by hypothesis to be \(5\)) of the linear system \(\mathcal{X}\) defining the inverse of the tangential projection. All of them are OADP varieties. In Thm. 3 a description of normal Bronowski 3-varieties with \(V\) a cubic, the same hypothesis on minimality of \(d\) (assumed to be \(7\)) and a further assumption on the base locus of \(\mathcal{X}\) is provided. They are all OADP varieties, too. Finally, when \(V\) is a quartic, the normal Bronowski \(3\)-variety (which is also an OADP variety, see Thm. 4) for a general configuration of the base locus of \(\mathcal{X}\) is described.

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