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On the extendability of projective varieties: a survey

Algebraic Geometry 2023-12-07 v7

Abstract

We give a survey of the incredibly beautiful amount of geometry involved with the problem of realizing a projective variety as hyperplane section of another variety.

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@article{arxiv.2102.04431,
  title  = {On the extendability of projective varieties: a survey},
  author = {Angelo Felice Lopez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.04431},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

v2: added some references; v3: added more references, classical and recent; v4: minor modifications in the main text following referee's remarks; appendix substantially improved thanks to result pointed out by an anonymous referee; v5: added one more reference; v6: added another reference

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