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Varieties with quadratic entry locus, II
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2008
Abstract
We continue the study, begun in [F. Russo, Varieties with quadratic entry locus. I, Preprint (2006), math. AG/0701889] , of secant defective manifolds having ‘simple entry loci’. We prove that such manifolds are rational and describe them in terms of tangential projections. Using also the work of [P. Ionescu and F. Russo, Conic-connected manifolds, Preprint (2006), math. AG/0701885], their classification is reduced to the case of Fano manifolds of high index, whose Picard group is generated by the hyperplane section class. Conjecturally, the former should be linear sections of rational homogeneous manifolds. We also provide evidence that the classification of linearly normal dual defective manifolds with Picard group generated by the hyperplane section should follow along the same lines.
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The first author is partially supported by the Italian Programme ‘Incentivazione alla mobilità di studiosi stranieri e italiani residenti all’estero’. The second author is partially supported by CNPq (Centro Nacional de Pesquisa), Grants 300961/2003-0, 308745/2006-0 and 474475/2006-9, and by PRONEX/FAPERJ–Algebra Comutativa e Geometria Algebrica.
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