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Equations for polar grassmannians

Algebraic Geometry 2015-05-08 v1

Abstract

Given an NN-dimensional vector space VV over a field F\mathbb{F} and a trace-valued (σ,ε)(\sigma,\varepsilon)-sesquilinear form f:V×VFf:V\times V\rightarrow \mathbb{F}, with ε=±1\varepsilon = \pm 1 and σ2=idF\sigma^2 = \mathrm{id}_{\mathbb{F}}, let S{\cal S} be the polar space of totally ff-isotropic subspaces of VV and let nn be the rank of S{\cal S}. Assuming n2n \geq 2, let 2kn2 \leq k \leq n, let Gk{\cal G}_k the kk-grassmannian of PG(V)\mathrm{PG}(V), embedded in PG(kV)\mathrm{PG}(\wedge^kV) as a projective variety and Sk{\cal S}_k the kk-grassmannian of S\cal S. In this paper we find one simple equation that, jointly with the equations of Gk{\cal G}_k, describe Sk{\cal S}_k as a subset of PG(kV)\mathrm{PG}(\wedge^kV).

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@article{arxiv.1505.01780,
  title  = {Equations for polar grassmannians},
  author = {Antonio Pasini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.01780},
  year   = {2015}
}

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