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Refined intersection products and limiting linear subspaces of hypersurfaces

alg-geom 2008-02-03 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Let XX be a hypersurface of degree dd in Pn\Bbb P^n and FXF_X be the scheme of Pr\Bbb P^r's contained in XX. If XX is generic, then FXF_X will have the expected dimension (or empty) and its class in the Chow ring of G(r+1,n+1)G(r+1,n+1) is given by the top Chern class of the vector bundle SdUS^dU^*, where UU is the universal subbundle on the Grassmannian G(r+1,n+1)G(r+1,n+1). When we deform a generic XX into a degenerate X0X_0, the dimension of FXF_X can jump. In this case, there is a subscheme FlimF_{lim} of FX0F_{X_0} with the expected dimension which consists of limiting Pr\Bbb P^r's in X0X_0 with respect to a general deformation. The simplest example is the well-known case of 2727 lines in a generic cubic surface. If we degenerate the surface into the union of a plane and a quadric, then there are infinitely many lines in the union. Which 2727 lines are the limiting ones and how many of them are in the plane and how many of them are in the quadric? The goal of this paper is to study FlimF_{lim} in general.

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@article{arxiv.alg-geom/9304002,
  title  = {Refined intersection products and limiting linear subspaces of hypersurfaces},
  author = {Xian Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:alg-geom/9304002},
  year   = {2008}
}

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