Complete Symmetric Varieties II Intersection theory
Complete Symmetric Varieties II Intersection theory
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完全对称簇 II 交集理论
DOI:
10.2969/aspm/00610481
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发表时间:
1985
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通讯作者:
C. Procesi
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作者:
C. Concini;C. Procesi
This paper is a continuation of our "Complete symmetric varieties" [5]. We explain here a method suitable to solve general enumerative problems on a symmetric homogeneous space. In the classical enumerative theory of conics the following class of problems was studied. One gives a "condition" on a conic, i.e. the condition of passing through a point, being tangent to a line, being osculating to a curve in a given family etc. The set of conics satisfying this type of conditions will be an algebraic subvariety, its codimension is called the dimension of the condition. If one imposes a number of independent conditions, such that the sum of their dimensions is equal to 5 (the dimension of the space of conics), then the set of conics satisfying the given conditions is finite and the main question of enumerative geometry of conics to compute its cardinality. Of course here we are talking about conics as a way of example but at least for this general approach, a general homogeneous variety fits in the discussion. The method of Chasles, Schubert used classically is to construct an algebra with the set of conditions; compute any condition as the linear combination of basic ones and reduce any enumerative problem to the ones involving the basic conditions. For instance Chasles computes the number of conics tangent to 5 general conics as. follows. He proves that the condition of being tangent to a conic is. 2( a + p)where a is "passing through a point", p is "being tangent to a line" the number requested is then 25(a+p)5 and each monomial aip5-i can be computed by direct geometric arguments. The idea of equivalence of conditions is justified by the principle of conservation of number, we transform an enumerative problem into another one which has the same number of solutions through this principle. We refer to Kleiman's treatment for further comments and informations on this theory [12]. It is not hard to formalize this set of ideas although, as we shall see,