A note on higher order Gauss Maps

• We study Gauss maps of order k, associated to a projective variety X embedded in projective space via a line bundle L. We show that if X is a smooth, complete complex variety and L is a k-jet spanned line bundle on X, with k > 1, then the Gauss map of order k has finite fibers, unless X = P^n is embedded by the Veronese embedding of order k. In the case where X is a toric variety, we give a combinatorial description of the Gauss maps of order k, its image and the general fibers. 

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Matematik -- Geometri (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Mathematics -- Geometry (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Matematik -- Algebra och logik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Mathematics -- Algebra and Logic (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Matematik -- Diskret matematik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Mathematics -- Discrete Mathematics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Mathematics

Matematik

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