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Deformations of the tangent bundle of a projective hypersurface

Algebraic Geometry 2025-06-26 v1

Abstract

For a nonsingular hypersurface XPn,n4,X \subset \mathbb{P}^n, n \geq 4, of degree d2d \geq 2, we show that the space H1(X,\End(TX))H^1(X, \End(T_X)) of infinitesimal deformations of the tangent bundle TXT_X has dimension (n+d1d)(d1){n+d-1 \choose d} (d-1) and all infinitesimal deformations are unobstructed even though H2(X,\End(TX))H^2(X, \End(T_X)) can be nonzero. Furthermore, we prove that the irreducible component of the moduli space of stable bundles containing the tangent bundle is a rational variety, by constructing an explicit birational model.

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@article{arxiv.2506.20085,
  title  = {Deformations of the tangent bundle of a projective hypersurface},
  author = {Insong Choe and Kiryong Chung and Jun-Muk Hwang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.20085},
  year   = {2025}
}

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10 pages