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Title Projective varieties with unexpected properties : a volume in memory of Giuseppe Veronese : proceedings of the international conference "Varieties with Unexpected Properties," Siena, Italy, June 8-13, 2004 / edited by Ciro Ciliberto [and others].

Publication Info. Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 392 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Characterization of Veronese varieties via projection in Grassmannians; Birational geometry of defective varieties; Fano threefolds as hyperplane sections; Triple points imposing triple divisors and the defective hierarchy; Codimension one decompositions and Chow varieties; Higher secant varieties of Segre-Veronese varieties; An appendix to a paper of Catalisano, Geramita, Gimigliano: The Hilbert function of generic sets of 2-fat points in; The 3-cuspidal quartic and braid monodromy of degree 4 coverings; On the classification of defective threefolds.
Summary Contains refereed papers related to the lectures and talks given at a conference held in Siena (Italy) in June 2004. Some of these papers contain expository sections, which describe the subject of special projective varieties and their applications. This book focusses on the topic of secant varieties and the classification of defective varieties.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Algebraic varieties -- Congresses.
Algebraic varieties.
Geometry, Projective -- Congresses.
Geometry, Projective.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Festschriften.
Festschriften.
Added Author Veronese, Giuseppe, 1854-1917.
Ciliberto, C. (Ciro), 1950-
Other Form: Print version: Projective varieties with unexpected properties. Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 2005 (DLC) 2005025650
ISBN 9783110199703 (electronic book)
311019970X (electronic book)
9783110181609 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
3110181606 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
3110181606 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)