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Normal bundles of lines on hypersurfaces

Algebraic Geometry 2017-05-08 v1

Abstract

Let XPnX \subset \mathbb{P}^n be a smooth hypersurface. Given a sequence of integers a=(a1,,an2)\vec{a} = (a_1, \ldots, a_{n-2}) with a1an2a_1 \leq \cdots \leq a_{n-2}, let Fa(X)F_{\vec{a}}(X) be the parameter space of lines LL on XX such that NL/XO(a1)O(an2)N_{L/X} \cong \mathcal{O}(a_1) \oplus \cdots \oplus \mathcal{O}(a_{n-2}). The loci Fa(X)F_{\vec{a}}(X) form a stratification of the Fano scheme of lines on XX. We show that for general hypersurfaces, the Fa(X)F_{\vec{a}}(X) have the expected dimension and, in this case, compute the class of Fa(X)\overline{F_{\vec{a}}(X)} in the Chow ring of the Grassmannian of lines in Pn\mathbb{P}^n. For certain splitting types a\vec{a}, we also provide non-trivial upper bounds on the dimension of Fa(X)F_{\vec{a}}(X) that hold for all smooth XX.

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@article{arxiv.1705.01972,
  title  = {Normal bundles of lines on hypersurfaces},
  author = {Hannah Larson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.01972},
  year   = {2017}
}