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The Higher Connectivity of Intersections of Real Quadrics

Michael Larsen, Ayelet Lindenstrauss

math.ATarXiv:math/0508388

Abstract

A linear system of real quadratic forms defines a real projective variety. The real non-singular locus of this variety (more precisely of the underlying scheme) has a highly connected double cover as long as each non-zero form in the system has sufficiently high Witt index.

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