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Tesi etd-05222018-151008


Tipo di tesi
Tesi di laurea magistrale
Autore
FAGIOLI, FILIPPO
URN
etd-05222018-151008
Titolo
Counting Lines on Projective Hypersurfaces via Characteristic Classes
Dipartimento
MATEMATICA
Corso di studi
MATEMATICA
Relatori
relatore Prof.ssa Pardini, Rita
Parole chiave
  • orientation
  • lines
  • hypersurfaces
  • Euler class
  • Enumerative Geometry
  • Chern classes
  • characteristic classes
  • vector bundles
Data inizio appello
08/06/2018
Consultabilità
Completa
Riassunto
In this thesis we discuss the enumerative geometry problem of counting lines on projective hypersurfaces via characteristic classes.
In the first part, divided into two chapters, we recall some necessary prerequisites on real and complex vector bundles, and prove key properties of Euler and Chern classes in order to solve the enumerative problem.
In the second part, also divided into two chapters, we approach the enumerative problem both in the complex and in the real case by applying the tools presented in the first part. Our investigation leads to the following conclusions. In the complex case, the top Chern class of an appropriate bundle provides the exact number of lines contained in a general hypersurface of degree 2n-3 in the n-dimensional projective space. In the real case, the same methodology is also applied by making use of the Euler class. This leads to a non trivial lower bound for the total number of lines on a general hypersurface of degree 2n-3 in the real n-dimensional projective space.
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