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Determinant of complexes and higher Hessians

alg-geom 2008-02-03 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Let XPrX \subset \Bbb P^r be a smooth algebraic curve in projective space, over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. For each mNm \in \Bbb N, the mm-flexes of XX are defined as the points where the osculating hypersurface of degree mm has higher contact than expected, and a hypersurface HPrH \subset \Bbb P^r is called a mm-Hessian if it cuts XX along its mm-flexes. When XX is a complete intersection, we give an expression for a (rational) mm-Hessian as the Div (in the sense of Grothendieck-Knudsen-Mumford) of a complex of graded free modules naturally associated to XX. The construction of this complex involves relating sheaves of differential operators on a scheme and a subscheme, and higher Euler sequences on projective space.

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@article{arxiv.alg-geom/9601001,
  title  = {Determinant of complexes and higher Hessians},
  author = {Fernando Cukierman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:alg-geom/9601001},
  year   = {2008}
}

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