On the osculatory behaviour of higher dimensional projective varieties

• Autores: Claudio Fontanari, Edoardo Ballico
• Localización: Collectanea mathematica, ISSN 0010-0757, Vol. 55, Fasc. 2, 2004, págs. 229-236
• Idioma: inglés
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  • We explore the geometry of the osculating spaces to projective varieties of arbitrary dimension. In particular, we classify varieties having very degenerate higher order osculating spaces and we determine mild conditions for the existence of inflectionary points.

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