On the geometry of some special projective varieties /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Russo, Francesco, 1959- (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham ; New York : Springer, [2016]
Series:	Lecture notes of the Unione Matematica Italiana ; 18.
Subjects:	Geometry, Algebraic. Algebraic varieties. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Preface.-Introduction
1.Tangent cones, tangent spaces, tangent stars; secant, tangent and tangent star varieties to an algebraic variety
2.Basics of Deformation Theory of Rational Curves on Projective Varieties
3.Fulton-Hansen Connectedness Theorem, Scorza Lemma and their applications to projective geometry
4.Local quadratic entry locus manifolds and conic connected manifolds
5.Hartshorne Conjectures and Severi varieties
6.Varieties n-covered by curves of a fixed degree and the XJC
7. Hypersurfaces with vanishing hessian.-Bibliography.