Questions tagged [hypersurfaces]

The tag has no usage guidance.

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
2 votes
0 answers
38 views

Under what conditions principal directions define an integrable distribution?

Consider a hypersurface $M^n \subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ which is compact without boundary. Assume that its second fundamental form $A$ has distinct eigenvalues $\lambda_1<\ldots<\lambda_k$ (with $...
Dorian's user avatar
  • 331
2 votes
0 answers
100 views

elliptic curves on general 3-folds of degree 7

Do there exist elliptic curves on a general 3-fold hypersurface $X_7 \subset \mathbb{P}^4$ of degree $7$? Clemens proved that for $d \ge 8$ there are no elliptic curves on the general hypersurface $...
Ben C's user avatar
  • 3,226
2 votes
0 answers
199 views

Is a variety always contained in a hypersurface of smaller or equal degree?

(a) Let $V\subset \mathbb{A}^n$ be an affine variety (not necessarily irreducible). Write $\deg(V)$ for the sum of the degrees of its irreducible components. Must there be a hypersurface $W\subset \...
H A Helfgott's user avatar
  • 19.3k
3 votes
0 answers
130 views

Are there CM complete intersections of arbitrarily large degree and codimension?

For every $d, c$ does there exist a smooth complete intersection $X \subset \mathbb{P}^N$ of codimension $c$ and multidegrees $d_1, \dots, d_c \ge d$ such that the Mumford-Tate group of $X$ is abelian?...
Ben C's user avatar
  • 3,226
3 votes
0 answers
79 views

Algebraic hypersurfaces and Coxeter groups

What is the minimum degree of an algebraic hypersurface (not necessarily smooth) having each Coxeter group as its symmetry group?
Daniel Sebald's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
60 views

Real (non-complex) Du Val singularities for quartics of high global Milnor number

I posted this in MathStackexchange and was advised to come here. As I am only looking for examples, I didn't feel MathOverflow was necessary. I am looking for examples of specific quartic projective ...
Nep Nep's user avatar
  • 111
1 vote
0 answers
211 views

Tangent bundle of Milnor manifold

As I have been studying about Milnor manifold defined above, I want to understand its tangent bundle structure. I could not find anything related to that anywhere. I am aware of the fact that $H(m,n)$ ...
Devendra Singh Rana's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
97 views

Closed surfaces of prescribed mean curvature

Let $D\subset\mathbb R^n$ be a smoothly bounded open domain and $0\in D$. For any $x\in\partial D$ there holds \begin{eqnarray*} 2 \,a'(\vert x\vert)\,(x\cdot\nu(x))+(n-1)\,a(\vert x\vert) \, H(x) = \...
guest61's user avatar
  • 319
6 votes
3 answers
895 views

Open complement of hypersurfaces

Let $k$ be an algebraically closed field. Let $H_1, H_2$ be two smooth hypersurfaces of the same degree $d$ in $P^n_k$. Let $U_1,U_2$ be their complements respectively. Are $U_1,U_2$ isomorphic as ...
Yuan Yang's user avatar
  • 537
5 votes
0 answers
180 views

Description of determinantal varieties in $\mathbb{P}^n$ that are linear sections of determinantal varieties in $\mathbb{P}^{n+1}$

Fix an algebraically closed field $k$ of characteristic 0. Consider an $n$-tuple $(A_1,\ldots, A_n)$ of $n\times n$ matrices over $k$ and assign to it the determinantal surface in $\mathbb{P}_k^{n-1}$ ...
Sergey Guminov's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
97 views

Lipschitz hypersurface

I asked this already on Math SE. Maybe this definition is not quite common, but I'm asking myself what a Lipschitz hypersurface is. Intuitively this is a hypersurface which can locally be parametrized ...
user99432's user avatar
  • 173
1 vote
0 answers
69 views

Uniformly graphical hypersurfaces in Riemannian manifolds

Let $M$ be a hypersurface embedded in $\mathbb{R}^n$. It is known that if the norm squared of the second fundamental form of $M$ is bounded, then we can find a uniform lower bound for the radius $R>...
AlexInorbit's user avatar
0 votes
0 answers
155 views

Dimension of quintic hypersurfaces singular at given number of points

How many quintic hypersurfaces are there which are singular at given points (need not be general) of length at least 20? Is there any upper bound of the dimension of such quintics?
LAPRAS's user avatar
  • 527
3 votes
0 answers
138 views

Calculation of the mean curvature under a normal perturbation

Let $X: M^n \to N^{n+1}$ be a Riemannian immersion. Write $g, A, \nu, H$ for the first fundamental form, second fundamental form, Gauss map and mean curvature of $X$ respectively. Consider the normal ...
AlexInorbit's user avatar
2 votes
1 answer
311 views

Quadric surfaces tangent to a cubic threefold along a line of first type

Take a line $L$ of the first type on a smooth cubic threefold $X$ over $\mathbb C$, then its normal bundle $N_{L|X}$ is isomorphic to $\mathcal{O}_L\oplus \mathcal{O}_L$. This is equivalent to say ...
AG learner's user avatar
  • 1,701
4 votes
0 answers
126 views

Area lower bound given a mean curvature upper bound?

If $\Sigma$ is a smooth embedded closed hypersurface in $\mathbb R^n$ with (normalized) mean curvature $H\le 1$ (the mean curvature of the unit sphere), then its ($(n-1)$-dimensional) area is at least ...
Nobody's user avatar
  • 41
0 votes
0 answers
205 views

Local complete intersection and hypersurfaces

Let $Y \subset \mathbb{P}^n$ be a regular, codimension $2$, complete intersection subscheme in $\mathbb{P}^n$ (for example, $Y \cong \mathbb{P}^{n-2}$). Let $X$ be a normal (not necessarily smooth) ...
user45397's user avatar
  • 2,195
3 votes
0 answers
180 views

Existence of regular hypersurface sections

Let $X$ be a irreducible regular projective variety over $Spec(O_K)$ for some number field $K$. Is it known that there exists at least one hypersurface over $Spec(O_K)$ such that cuts $X$ in a regular ...
user127776's user avatar
  • 5,821
2 votes
0 answers
83 views

Is Colding-Minicozzi entropy continuous w.r.t. $C^\infty$ convergenge?

For an hypersurface $\Sigma^n \subseteq \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ the entropy introduced by Colding and Minicozzi (see their paper) is defined as $$ \lambda(\Sigma) := \sup_{x_0 \in \mathbb{R}^{n+1} \\ t_0 \...
Onil90's user avatar
  • 823
3 votes
0 answers
192 views

Hilbert polynomial of structure sheaf of hypersurfaces

Is there an example of a hypersurface $X$ of some projective space $\mathbb{P}^n$ such that there exists an invertible sheaf $\mathcal{L}$ on $X$, not isomorphic to the structure sheaf $\mathcal{O}_X$,...
Jana's user avatar
  • 2,022
15 votes
2 answers
890 views

Is a cubic hypersurface determined by its Fano variety of lines?

Consider a smooth cubic complex hypersurface $X\subset\mathbf{P}^{n+1}$ of dimension $n\geqslant 3$. The associated Fano variety of lines $F(X)$ is a smooth variety of dimension $2n-4$. Can one ...
ssx's user avatar
  • 2,729
8 votes
0 answers
282 views

Are smooth specializations of smooth hypersurfaces again hypersurfaces

Let $X\subset \mathbb{P}^n$ be a smooth projective hypersurface of degree $d$ (over the complex numbers). Assume $n$ is very large compared to $d$, and that $d$ is a prime number (e.g., $d=3$ and $n &...
Neeroen123's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
235 views

Approximating a compact $C^1$ hypersurface without boundary

Can we approximate (arbitrarily closely) a compact $C^1$ hypersurface in Euclidean space without boundary with a polygonal hypersurface, such as a simplicial complex? To clarify, I want to have the $\...
L P's user avatar
  • 323
2 votes
0 answers
109 views

How do conformal maps affect curvature?

Let $(\overline{M}^{n+1}, \langle \cdot, \cdot \rangle)$ be a riemannian manifold with riemannian connection $\overline{\nabla}$ and consider $M^n \subset \overline{M}$ an orientable hypersurface with ...
Eduardo Longa's user avatar
6 votes
1 answer
197 views

Hypersurfaces whose equation is not known

I would like to find some well-known/interesting hypersurfaces which arise as parametrizations where implicitization is computationally too difficult. I have software which computes the Newton ...
Taylor's user avatar
  • 251
4 votes
1 answer
254 views

Are there algorithmic tools for computing poincare residues?

In Schnell's note on Computing Picard-Fuchs Equations he gives a recursive method for computing residues on hypersurfaces. In short, if you have a meromorphic differential form $$ \frac{dw}{w^k}\wedge ...
54321user's user avatar
  • 1,706
4 votes
0 answers
243 views

English language and Mathematics

I have a question maybe more relevant to an English language section of StackExchange, but I doubt that anybody but a Mathematician could properly answer my question. Let $\mathcal M$ be a smooth ...
Bazin's user avatar
  • 15k
1 vote
1 answer
548 views

Birational morphism and invariance of arithmetic genus

Let $f:X \to Y$ be a birational morphism between projective, irreducible surfaces. Assume $X$ is non-singular and $Y$ is a hypersurface in $\mathbb{P}^3$ (not necessarily smooth). Is the arithmetic ...
user43198's user avatar
  • 1,949
2 votes
0 answers
223 views

Computing higher dimensional intersection numbers for complete intersections of $\mathbb P^n$

Let $X_1,X_2$ be two smooth hypersurfaces of degree $d$ in $\mathbb P^{n}$. Let $B=X_1\cap X_2$. Assume $B$ is smooth. Let $\mathcal N_{B/\mathbb P^n}$ be the normal bundle to $B$. Let $H$ be the ...
Jesus Martinez Garcia's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
195 views

Does a moving family of lines through a fixed point produce a singularity?

This is just a feeling that I had and I am curious if it is totally wrong or true to some extent. Let $X\subseteq \mathbb{P}^r$ be an integral hypersurface of degree $r-1$, which is not a cone. In ...
Irfan Kadikoylu's user avatar
4 votes
1 answer
331 views

Umbilic points on Euclidean hypersurfaces

Every smooth embedding of $S^2$ into $\mathbb{R}^3$ has at least one umbilic point (in fact, the recent proof of the Caratheodory conjecture yields two such points). The usual proof of this is to use ...
User0.9999999.....'s user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
614 views

Irreducibility of the singular locus of a cubic hypersurface

Let $Z\subseteq \mathbb{P}^{N}$ be an irreducible cubic hypersurface, i.e. $Z=V(F)$ for certain homogeneous irreducible polynomial $F\in K[X_{0},\ldots,X_{N}]$ of degree $3$. Let us suppose that its ...
Srinivasa Granujan's user avatar
0 votes
0 answers
98 views

Obtaining Hessian of the embedding from an induced metric

Consider a hypersurface (not necessarily compact) smoothly embedded into $\mathbb{R}^n$ such that the Hessian is a positive definite bilinear form. Due to positivenes, Hessian can be taken as a metric ...
Tomas's user avatar
  • 267
2 votes
1 answer
630 views

Number of singular fibers in families of hypersurfaces

Consider the projection map $$\pi: X = V(t_0 f + t_1 gh) \to \mathbf P^1,$$ where $[t_0: t_1]$ are the homogeneous coordinates on $\mathbf P^1$, $f=f(x_0, \dots, x_n)$ is a homogeneous polynomial of ...
Jakob's user avatar
  • 1,986
25 votes
5 answers
7k views

Intuition for mean curvature

I would like to get some intuitive feeling for the mean curvature. The mean curvature of a hypersurface in a Riemannian manifold by definition is the trace of the second fundamental form. Is there ...
nicolas's user avatar
  • 683