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Cohomological characterizations of projective spaces and hyperquadrics

Algebraic Geometry 2009-11-13 v2

Abstract

We confirm Beauville's conjecture that claims that if the p-th exterior power of the tangent bundle of a smooth projective variety contains the p-th power of an ample line bundle, then the variety is either the projective space or the p-dimensional quadric hypersurface.

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@article{arxiv.0707.4310,
  title  = {Cohomological characterizations of projective spaces and hyperquadrics},
  author = {Carolina Araujo and Stéphane Druel and Sándor J. Kovács},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.4310},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Added Lemma 2.8 and slightly changed proof of Lemma 6.2 to make them apply for torsion-free sheaves and not only to vector bundles

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