Note on double coverings and binary quadratic forms

Details Note on double coverings and binary quadratic forms Note on double coverings and binary quadratic forms

2009-06-22

arxiv.org/abs/0906.4084v1

Mathematics

Algebraic Geometry

30 pages. Text in French, introduction in English

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Let E be a rank two vector bundle on a scheme X. The following three structures are shown to be equivalent : a) A primitive quadratic map q: E --> L, with values in an invertible module L. b) A double covering f: Y --> X endowed with an invertible module F on Y, plus an isomorphism from the direct image of F to E. c) An effective Cartier divisor on the projective space P(E), of degree two over X. The passages from one of these points of view to another are carefully settled in their greatest generality: we only need that 2 is invertible on X. We then restrict to the projective space P_n, and we prove that for any double covering Y of P_n, the homomorphism on Picard groups it induces is an isomorphism if n ? 3; we finally apply this result to quadratic forms on rank two vector bundles on P_n.

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