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On the dual and hessian mappings of projective hypersurfaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

A. D. R. Choudary
Affiliation:
Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
A. Dimca
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, INCREST, 79622 Bucharest, Romania

Extract

We investigate the first-order Thom–Boardman singularity sets of the dual mapping for an arbitrary (and then for a generic) smooth hypersurface in the complex projective space ℙn. Our results focus on nonemptiness, connectedness, regular stratifications and numerical invariants for these sets.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1987

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