Gorenstein Algebras and Uniqueness of Additive Actions

Abstract

We study induced additive actions on projective hypersurfaces, i.e. regular actions of the algebraic group $\mathbb G_a^m$ with an open orbit that can be extended to a regular action on the ambient projective space. We prove that if a projective hypersurface admits an induced additive action, then it is unique if and only if the hypersurface is non-degenerate. We also show that for any $n\geq 2$, there exists a non-degenerate hypersurface in $\mathbb P^n$ of each degree $d$ from $2$ to $n$.