Surfaces with defective tangential varieties

Surfaces with <em>h</em>-defective tangential varieties are classified for any <em>h</em>. Smooth surfaces with this property are pointed out. It is shown that varieties of osculating (of any order) to curves are not defective.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Andrey Inshakov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università degli Studi di Catania 2001-11-01
Series:Le Matematiche
Online Access:http://www.dmi.unict.it/ojs/index.php/lematematiche/article/view/230