arXiv · 1310.5387
On general fibers of Gauss maps in positive characteristic
Abstract
A general fiber of the Gauss map of a projective variety in $\mathbb{P}^N$ coincides with a linear subvariety of $\mathbb{P}^N$ in characteristic zero. In positive characteristic, S. Fukasawa showed that a general fiber of the Gauss map can be a non-linear variety. In this paper, we show that each irreducible component of such a possibly non-linear fiber of the Gauss map is contracted to one point by the degeneracy map, and is contained in a linear subvariety corresponding to the kernel of the differential of the Gauss map. We also show the inseparability of Gauss maps of strange varieties not being cones.
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Katsuhisa Furukawa. 2013-10-21. On general fibers of Gauss maps in positive characteristic. https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.5387
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