arXiv · 1612.09020
Prolongations of infinitesimal automorphisms of cubic hypersurfaces with nonzero Hessian
Abstract
We study the connected component of the automorphism group of a cubic hypersurface over complex numbers. When the cubic hypersurface has nonzero Hessian, this group is usually small. But there are examples with unusually large automorphism groups: the secants of Severi varieties. Can we characterize them by the property of having unusually large automorphism groups? We study this question from the viewpoint of prolongations of the Lie algebras. Our result characterizes the secants of Severi varieties, among cubic hypersurfaces with nonzero Hessian and smooth singular locus, in terms of prolongations of certain type.
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Jun-Muk Hwang. 2016-12-29. Prolongations of infinitesimal automorphisms of cubic hypersurfaces with nonzero Hessian. https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.09020
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