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On special quadratic birational transformations of a projective space into a hypersurface

Algebraic Geometry 2013-04-09 v4

Abstract

We study transformations as in the title with emphasis on those having smooth connected base locus, called "special". In particular, we classify all special quadratic birational maps into a quadric hypersurface whose inverse is given by quadratic forms by showing that there are only four examples having general hyperplane sections of Severi varieties as base loci.

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@article{arxiv.1203.5417,
  title  = {On special quadratic birational transformations of a projective space into a hypersurface},
  author = {Giovanni Staglianò},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.5417},
  year   = {2013}
}

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Accepted for publication in Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo