Affiliation:
1. Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Pavia , Via Ferrata, 5 I-27100 Pavia, Italy
Abstract
Abstract
In this paper, we analyze the Hessian locus associated to a general cubic hypersurface, by describing its singular locus and its desingularization for every dimension. The strategy is based on strong connections between the Hessian and the quadrics defined as partial derivatives of the cubic polynomial. In particular, we focus our attention on the singularities of the Hessian hypersurface associated to the general cubic four-fold. It turns out to be a minimal surface of general type: its analysis is developed by exploiting the nature of this surface as a degeneracy locus of a symmetric vector bundle map and by describing an unramified double cover, which is constructed in a more general setting.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
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