On the osculatory behaviour of higher dimensional projective varieties
Algebraic Geometry
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Here we explore the geometry of the osculating spaces to projective varieties of arbitrary dimension. In particular, we classify varieties having very degenerate higher order osculating spaces and we determine mild conditions for the existence of inflectionary points.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0406319,
title = {On the osculatory behaviour of higher dimensional projective varieties},
author = {Edoardo Ballico and Claudio Fontanari},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0406319},
year = {2007}
}