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On the regularity of varieties having an extremal secant line

arXiv:math/0007074

Abstract

The Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of varieties of degree r and dimension n in the r-dimensional projective space that have an extremal secant line, is at least d-r+n+1. We classify these varieties and show that their regularity is exactly d-r+n+1, as predicted by the regularity conjecture.

12 pages, part of it contains results from my Ph.D. thesis (Columbia University NY)

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