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Abundance of real lines on real projective hypersurfaces

Algebraic Geometry 2012-06-26 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We show that a generic real projective n-dimensional hypersurface of degree 2n-1 contains "many" real lines, namely, not less than (2n-1)!!, which is approximately the square root of the number of complex lines. This estimate is based on the interpretation of a suitable signed count of the lines as the Euler number of an appropriate bundle.

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@article{arxiv.1201.2897,
  title  = {Abundance of real lines on real projective hypersurfaces},
  author = {S. Finashin and V. Kharlamov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.2897},
  year   = {2012}
}

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5 pages; http://imrn.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/rns135?