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On fourfolds with canonical curve sections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

L. Roth
L. Roth
Affiliation:
Imperial College of ScienceLondon, S.W. 7.
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In a recent note the writer has examined the varieties whose generic curve sections are canonical curves of genus p, of general character, and whose surface sections contain only complete intersections with primals; following Fano's classification, we call these varieties of the first species. Such varieties are all rational provided that r > 3 and p > 6. In the present paper we consider their representations on linear spaces for the case r = 4, from which, in conjunction with the previous results, we conclude that fourfolds of the first species exist if, and only if, p ≤ 10; this agrees with the conjecture made by Fano in the case r = 3. It will be seen that the representation of these varieties on [4] provides interesting illustrations of Semple's formulae for composite surfaces in higher space.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , July 1950 , pp. 419 - 428
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1950

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