Griffiths–Harris rigidity conjecture for the Segre variety
Griffiths–Harris rigidity conjecture for the Segre variety
Let . Let be a variety, and let denote its second fundamental form at a general point . Griffiths–Harris conjecture. If, at , , then is projectively equivalent to the Segre variety . This is a second-order rigidity assertion: the second fundamental form should characterize the Segre variety among four-dimensional varieties. The conjecture is presented as a question of Griffiths and Harris, with no resolution supplied here.
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Primary source
J. M. Landsberg, “Exterior differential systems, Lie algebra cohomology, and the rigidity of homogenous varieties”, arXiv:0802.4280 (2008).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2006–2008). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/0609507.
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