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Texas A&M University
Mathematics

Student/Postdoc Working Geometry Seminar

Date: February 18, 2021

Time: 9:30PM - 10:30PM

Location: zoom

Speaker: JM Landsberg, TAMU

  

Title: Gauss maps and secant varieties via differential geometry I

Abstract: This will be a sequence of 2 expository talks on Gauss maps and secant varieties. After a brief history, I'll give the proofs that (i) projective varieties with degenerate Gauss maps are singular (ii) Zak's theorem on tangencies, (iii) Zak's theorem on linear normailty, (iv) interesting tensors associated to varieties with degenerate secant varieties. The talks will also serve as an introduction to the moving frame.