Enriques Surfaces and other Non-Pfaffian Subcanonical Subschemes of Codimension 3

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dc.creatorEisenbud, David
dc.creatorPopescu, Sorin
dc.creatorWalter, Charles
dc.date1999-06-25
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T05:29:39Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T05:29:39Z
dc.descriptionWe give examples of subcanonical subvarieties of codimension 3 in projective n-space which are not Pfaffian, i.e. defined by the ideal sheaf of submaximal Pfaffians of an alternating map of vector bundles. This gives a negative answer to a question asked by Okonek. Walter had previously shown that a very large majority of subcanonical subschemes of codimension 3 in P^n are Pfaffian, but he left open the question whether the exceptional non-Pfaffian cases actually occur. We give non-Pfaffian examples of the principal types allowed by his theorem, including (Enriques) surfaces in P^5 in characteristic 2 and a smooth 4-fold in P^7. These examples are based on our previous work math.AG/9906170 showing that any strongly subcanonical subscheme of codimension 3 of a Noetherian scheme can be realized as a locus of degenerate intersection of a pair of Lagrangian (maximal isotropic) subbundles of a twisted orthogonal bundle.
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dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/9906171
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/9906171
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/78721
dc.subjectAlgebraic Geometry
dc.subjectCommutative Algebra
dc.subject14M07, 14J28, 13D02
dc.titleEnriques Surfaces and other Non-Pfaffian Subcanonical Subschemes of Codimension 3
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