{ "id": "1012.5238", "version": "v1", "published": "2010-12-23T16:03:09.000Z", "updated": "2010-12-23T16:03:09.000Z", "title": "Characterizations of projective spaces and hyperquadrics", "authors": [ "Druel Stéphane", "Paris Matthieu" ], "comment": "Supersedes the paper arXiv:1009.1247v2 by the second named author", "categories": [ "math.AG" ], "abstract": "In this paper we prove that if the r-th tensor power of the tangent bundle of a smooth projective variety X contains the determinant of an ample vector bundle of rank at least r, then X is isomorphic either to a projective space or to a smooth quadric hypersurface.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2010-12-23T16:03:09.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "14M20" ], "keywords": [ "projective space", "characterizations", "hyperquadrics", "ample vector bundle", "r-th tensor power" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2010arXiv1012.5238S" } } }