Topology of complete intersections

DOI10.1007/S000140050028MaRDI QIDQ1379593zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fuquan Fang

Publication date 28 September 1998

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s000140050028

zbMATH Keywords

complete intersections Euler characteristics Pontryagin classes signatures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linkage, complete intersections and determinantal ideals (13C40) Complete intersections (14M10)

Review text

The author considers complete intersections in complex projective spaces. It is a classical result of \textit{R. Thom} that the topology of an \(n\)-dimensional complete intersection depends only on the degrees of the homogeneous polynomials. For an unordered set \({\mathbf d}= (d_1,\dots, d_r)\) of nonnegative integers, \(X_n({\mathbf d})\) will denote an \(n\)-dimensional complete intersection defined by \(r\) homogeneous polynomials in \(n=r+1\) variables and degrees \(d_1,\dots, d_r\), respectively. The total degree of \(X_n({\mathbf d})\) is defined as \(d= d_1d_2\cdots d_r\). The following stems from the author's abstract: Let \(X_n({\mathbf d})\) and \(X_n({\mathbf d}')\) be two \(n\)-dimensional complete intersections with the same total degree \(d\). If \(d\) has no prime factors less than \(\frac{n+3}{2}\) with \(n\) even, then \(X_n({\mathbf d})\) and \(X_n({\mathbf d}')\) are homotopy equivalent if and only if they have same Euler characteristics and signatures. This confirms a conjecture of Libgober and Wood. Furthermore, if \(d\) has no prime factors less than \(\frac{n+3}{2}\), then \(X_n({\mathbf d})\) and \(X_n({\mathbf d}')\) are homeomorphic if and only if their Pontryagin classes and Euler characteristics agree.

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