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On the Griffiths-Harris conjecture on varieties with degenerate Gauss mappings

M. A. Akivis, V. V. Goldberg, J. M. Landsberg

math.AGarXiv:math/9908079

Abstract

We exhibit examples of projective varieties with degenerate Gauss mappings and determine numerical invariants of such varieties. Our examples provide counter-examples to an asserted structure theorem of Griffiths and Harris (Ann. Sci. ENS 1979).

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