Griffiths–Harris rigidity conjecture for the Segre variety

Let X=Seg(P2×P2)P(C3C3)X=\operatorname{Seg}(\mathbb P^2\times\mathbb P^2)\subset\mathbb P(\mathbb C^3\otimes\mathbb C^3). Let Z4PVZ^4\subset\mathbb P V be a variety, and let IIZ,zII_{Z,z} denote its second fundamental form at a general point zZz\in Z. Griffiths–Harris conjecture. If, at zZgeneralz\in Z_{general}, IIZ,z=IIXII_{Z,z}=II^X, then ZZ is projectively equivalent to the Segre variety XX. 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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J. M. Landsberg, “Exterior differential systems, Lie algebra cohomology, and the rigidity of homogenous varieties”, arXiv:0802.4280 (2008).

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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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