We study various measures of irrationality for hypersurfaces of large degree in projective space and other varieties. These include the least degree of a rational covering of projective space, and the minimal gonality of a covering family of curves. The theme is that positivity properties of canonical bundles lead to lower bounds on these invariants. In particular, we prove that if X is a very general smooth hypersurface of degree d in the (n+1)-dimensional projective space, then any dominant rational mapping from X to P^n must have degree at least d-1. We also propose a number of open problems, and we show how our methods lead to simple new proofs of results of Ran and Beheshti–Eisenbud concerning varieties of multi-secant lines.
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Titolo: | Measures of irrationality for hypersurfaces of large degree |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2017 |
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Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11586/206884 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 1.1 Articolo in rivista |