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On the normality of secant varieties

Algebraic Geometry 2015-11-06 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we show that the secant variety to a smooth projective variety embedded by a sufficiently positive line bundle is normal. As an application, we deduce that the secant variety to a general canonical curve of genus at least 7 is normal.

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@article{arxiv.1408.0865,
  title  = {On the normality of secant varieties},
  author = {Brooke Ullery},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.0865},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

14 pages; To appear in Advances in Mathematics; Lemma added in section 2 to improve readability