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On subcanonical Gorenstein varieties and apolarity

Algebraic Geometry 2014-02-26 v2 Commutative Algebra

Abstract

Let XX be a codimension 1 subvariety of dimension >1>1 of a variety of minimal degree YY. If XX is subcanonical with Gorenstein canonical singularities admitting a crepant resolution, then XX is Arithmetically Gorenstein and we characterise such subvarieties XX of YY via apolarity as those whose apolar hypersurfaces are Fermat.

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@article{arxiv.1112.2897,
  title  = {On subcanonical Gorenstein varieties and apolarity},
  author = {Pietro De Poi and Francesco Zucconi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.2897},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

18 pages; AMS-LaTeX; minor changes. To appear in the Journal of London Mathematical Society