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Projective varieties with unexpected properties : a volume in memory of Giuseppe Veronese : proceedings of the international conference "Varieties with Unexpected Properties," Siena, Italy, June 8-13, 2004 /

Contains refereed papers related to the lectures and talks given at a conference held in Siena (Italy) in June 2004. Some of these papers contain expository sections, which describe the subject of special projective varieties and their applications. This book focusses on the topic of secant varietie...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Veronese, Giuseppe, 1854-1917, Ciliberto, C. (Ciro), 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Characterization of Veronese varieties via projection in Grassmannians; Birational geometry of defective varieties; Fano threefolds as hyperplane sections; Triple points imposing triple divisors and the defective hierarchy; Codimension one decompositions and Chow varieties; Higher secant varieties of Segre-Veronese varieties; An appendix to a paper of Catalisano, Geramita, Gimigliano: The Hilbert function of generic sets of 2-fat points in; The 3-cuspidal quartic and braid monodromy of degree 4 coverings; On the classification of defective threefolds.