# SIMBa: Osculating spaces and Lefschetz properties

El proper dimecres, 14 de novembre, se celebrarà una nova xerrada del Seminari Informal de Matemàtiques de Barcelona (SIMBa).

Speaker: Martí Salat Moltó
Universitat: Universitat de Barcelona

Data: Dimecres, 14 de novembre de 2018
Hora: 13:00, cafè; 13:20, xerrada
Lloc: Aula B1 Facultat de Matemàtiques de la Universitat de Barcelona.
Idioma: Castellà

Títol: Osculating spaces and Lefschetz properties
Resum: Let $X \in \mathbb{P}^N$ be an algebraic variety. The sth osculating space of $X$ at a point $p \in X$ is the vector space $T_{p}^{(s)}X$ spanned by all the sth partial derivatives of a local parametrization of $X$ at $p$. Hence it can be seen as a natural generalization of the well-known notion of tangent space. It is a wide and longstanding problem to study and classify varieties whose osculating space is defective (i.e. it does not reach the maximal dimension).
In the first part of this talk we will recall the notion of osculating space and we will see some examples. In the second part we will explore the connection made by Mezzetti, Ottaviani and Miró-Roig. This connection explains why some varieties have a defective osculating space by means of the –a priori unrelated notion– of the weak Lefschetz property. This result motivates the definition of Togliatti systems. Finally, if the time allows us to do so, we will give an insight to the classification problem of Togliatti systems using combinatorial methods of Toric varieties.

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