Line Congruences of Low Order
A line congruence is an irreducible subvariety of dimension n−1 in the Grassmannian of lines in Pn. There are two numerical invariants associated to a line congruence: the order, which is the number of lines passing through a general point of Pn, and the class, which is the number of lines of the co...
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| Format: | article |
| Publication Date: | 2002 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repository: | Docta Complutense |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/57036 |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/57036 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | 512 Grassmannians Schubert varieties Álgebra 1201 Álgebra |
| Summary: | A line congruence is an irreducible subvariety of dimension n−1 in the Grassmannian of lines in Pn. There are two numerical invariants associated to a line congruence: the order, which is the number of lines passing through a general point of Pn, and the class, which is the number of lines of the congruence contained in a general hyperplaneH and meeting a general line inH. The paper reviews the classification of line congruences of order 0 and 1, and then gives some new results online congruences of order 2 in P3, which is a work in progress. The last section states some open questions. |
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