Homaloidal hypersurfaces and hypersurfaces with vanishing Hessian

Details Homaloidal hypersurfaces and hypersurfaces with vanishing Hessian Homaloidal hypersurfaces and hypersurfaces with vanishing Hessian

2007-01-21

arxiv.org/abs/math/0701596v2

Advances in Mathematics 218 (2008), 1759{1805

Mathematics

Algebraic Geometry

56 pages. Some material added in section 1; minor changes. Final version to appear in Advances in Mathematics

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We prove the existence of various families of irreducible homaloidal hypersurfaces in projective space $\mathbb P^ r$, for all $r\geq 3$. Some of these are families of homaloidal hypersurfaces whose degrees are arbitrarily large as compared to the dimension of the ambient projective space. The existence of such a family solves a question that has naturally arisen from the consideration of the classes of homaloidal hypersurfaces known so far. The result relies on a fine analysis of dual hypersurfaces to certain scroll surfaces. We also introduce an infinite family of determinantal homaloidal hypersurfaces based on a certain degeneration of a generic Hankel matrix. These examples fit non--classical versions of de Jonqui\`eres transformations. As a natural counterpoint, we broaden up aspects of the theory of Gordan--Noether hypersurfaces with vanishing Hessian determinant, bringing over some more precision to the present knowledge.

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