Characterizing cubic hypersurfaces via projective geometry

2022/02/17 by Park, Soohyun
#Algebraic Geometry (math.AG) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2202.08864

Abstract

We use the cut and paste relation [Y^[2]] = [Y][ℙ^m] + \mathbbL² [F(Y)] in K₀(Var_k) of Galkin--Shinder for cubic hypersurfaces arising from projective geometry to characterize cubic hypersurfaces of sufficiently high dimension under certain numerical or genericity conditions. Removing the conditions involving the middle Betti number from the numerical conditions used extends the possible Y to cubic hypersurfaces, complete intersections of two quadric hypersurfaces, or complete intersections of two quartic hypersurfaces. The same method also gives a family of other cut and paste relations that can only possibly be satisfied by cubic hypersurfaces.

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