On the dimension of secant varieties

  • Luca Chiantini

    Universita di Siena, Italy
  • Ciro Ciliberto

    Università di Roma, Italy

Abstract

In this paper we generalize Zak’s theorems on tangencies and on linear normality as well as Zak’s definition and classification of Severi varieties. In particular we find sharp lower bounds for the dimension of higher secant varieties of a given variety X under suitable regularity assumptions on X, and we classify varieties for which the bound is attained.

Cite this article

Luca Chiantini, Ciro Ciliberto, On the dimension of secant varieties. J. Eur. Math. Soc. 12 (2010), no. 5, pp. 1267–1291

DOI 10.4171/JEMS/229