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Projective surfaces with many skew lines

Author(s): Slawomir Rams
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 133 (2005), 11-13.
MSC (2000): Primary 14J25; Secondary 14J70
Posted: August 20, 2004
MathSciNet review: 2085146
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Abstract: We give an example of a smooth surface ${S}_{d}\subset \mathbb{P} _{3}(\mathbb{C} )$ of degree $d$that contains $d \cdot (d-2) + 2$pairwise disjoint lines. In particular, our example shows that the degree in Miyaoka's bound is sharp.


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Additional Information:

Slawomir Rams
Affiliation: Institute of Mathematics UJ, ul. Reymonta 4, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
Address at time of publication: Mathematisches Institut, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bismarckstrasse 1 1/2, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany
Email: rams@mi.uni-erlangen.de, rams@im.uj.edu.pl

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-04-07519-7
PII: S 0002-9939(04)07519-7
Keywords: Miyaoka's bound, skew lines
Received by editor(s): April 6, 2002
Received by editor(s) in revised form: August 27, 2003
Posted: August 20, 2004
Additional Notes: Partially supported by DFG contract BA 423/8-1 and the Foundation for Polish Science.
Communicated by: Michael Stillman
Copyright of article: Copyright 2004, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.




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