Mathematics – Algebraic Geometry
Scientific paper
1999-11-11
Mathematics
Algebraic Geometry
17 pages, 1 figure, AMSLaTex2e; To appear in Math. Z
Scientific paper
We show how to use information about the equations defining secant varieties to smooth projective varieties in order to construct a natural collection of birational transformations. These were first constructed as flips in the case of curves by M. Thaddeus via Geometric Invariant Theory, and the first flip in the sequence was constructed by the author for varieties of arbitrary dimension in an earlier paper. We expose the finer structure of a second flip; again for varieties of arbitrary dimension. We also prove a result on the cubic generation of the secant variety and give some conjectures on the behavior of equations defining the higher secant varieties.
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