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A Characterization of Products of Projective Spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Gianluca Occhetta*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Trento, Via Sommarive, 14, I-38050 Povo (Trento), Italy e-mail: occhetta@science.unitn.it
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Abstract

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We give a characterization of products of projective spaces using unsplit covering families of rational curves.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2006

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