On special quadratic birational transformations whose base locus has dimension at most three

Giovanni Staglianò

doi:10.4171/rlm/659

JournalsrlmVol. 24, No. 3pp. 409–436

On special quadratic birational transformations whose base locus has dimension at most three

Giovanni Staglianò
Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy

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Abstract

We study birational transformations $φ : P^{n} ⇢ \overline{φ (P^{n})} \subseteq P^{N}$ defined by linear systems of quadrics whose base locus is smooth and irreducible of dimension $\leq 3$ and whose image $\overline{φ (P^{n})}$ is sufficiently regular.

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Giovanni Staglianò, On special quadratic birational transformations whose base locus has dimension at most three. Atti Accad. Naz. Lincei Cl. Sci. Fis. Mat. Natur. 24 (2013), no. 3, pp. 409–436

DOI 10.4171/RLM/659