TY - JOUR
T1 - Multi-secant lemma
AU - Kaminski, J. Y.
AU - Kanel-Belov, A.
AU - Teicher, M.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - We present a new generalization of the classical trisecant lemma. Our approach is quite different from previous generalizations [8, 10, 1, 2, 4, 7]. Let X be an equidimensional projective variety of dimension d. For a given k ≤ d + 1, we are interested in the study of the variety of k-secants. The classical trisecant lemma just considers the case where k = 3 while in [10] the case k = d + 2 is considered. Secants of order from 4 to d + 1 provide service for our main result. In this paper, we prove that if the variety of k-secants (k ≤ d + 1) satisfies the following three conditions: (i) through every point in X, there passes at least one k-secant, (ii) the variety of k-secants satisfies a strong connectivity property that we define in the sequel, (iii) every k-secant is also a (k + 1)-secant; then the variety X can be embedded into ℙd+1. The new assumption, introduced here, that we call strong connectivity, is essential because a naive generalization that does not incorporate this assumption fails, as we show in an example. The paper concludes with some conjectures concerning the essence of the strong connectivity assumption.
AB - We present a new generalization of the classical trisecant lemma. Our approach is quite different from previous generalizations [8, 10, 1, 2, 4, 7]. Let X be an equidimensional projective variety of dimension d. For a given k ≤ d + 1, we are interested in the study of the variety of k-secants. The classical trisecant lemma just considers the case where k = 3 while in [10] the case k = d + 2 is considered. Secants of order from 4 to d + 1 provide service for our main result. In this paper, we prove that if the variety of k-secants (k ≤ d + 1) satisfies the following three conditions: (i) through every point in X, there passes at least one k-secant, (ii) the variety of k-secants satisfies a strong connectivity property that we define in the sequel, (iii) every k-secant is also a (k + 1)-secant; then the variety X can be embedded into ℙd+1. The new assumption, introduced here, that we call strong connectivity, is essential because a naive generalization that does not incorporate this assumption fails, as we show in an example. The paper concludes with some conjectures concerning the essence of the strong connectivity assumption.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11856-010-0045-6
DO - 10.1007/s11856-010-0045-6
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SN - 0021-2172
VL - 177
SP - 253
EP - 266
JO - Israel Journal of Mathematics
JF - Israel Journal of Mathematics
IS - 1
ER -