On a Lemma of Bompiani

2004/06/16 by Edoardo Ballico, Ballico, Edoardo, Claudio Fontanari +1
Mathematics · #14N05 #Advanced Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems #Algebraic Geometry (math.AG) #FOS: Mathematics #Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals #Mathematics and Applications #math.AG #msc:14N05

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0406318

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Abstract

We reprove in modern terms and extend to arbitrary dimension a classical result of Enrico Bompiani on algebraic surfaces X ⊂ \PP^r having very degenerate osculating spaces.

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