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Hyperplane Sections of Hypersurfaces

Algebraic Geometry 2020-07-08 v3

Abstract

We compute some numerical invariants of the lines on hyperplane sections of a smooth cubic threefold over complex numbers. We also prove that for any smooth hypersurface XPn+1X\subset \mathbb P^{n+1} of degree dd over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero, if d>n>1d>n>1 and (n,d)(2,3),(3,4)(n,d)\neq (2,3),(3,4), then a general hyperplane section only admits finitely many others which are isomorphic to it.

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@article{arxiv.2001.10983,
  title  = {Hyperplane Sections of Hypersurfaces},
  author = {Yiran Cheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.10983},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

18 pages, minor corrections. A case in the proof of Proposition 2.8 was overlooked (thanks to Dennis Tseng for pointing out this) and I withdraw the paper until that gap is filled

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