Fulton–Hansen connectedness theorem

In mathematics, the Fulton–Hansen connectedness theorem is a result from intersection theory in algebraic geometry, for the case of subvarieties of projective space with codimension large enough to make the intersection have components of dimension at least 1.

The formal statement is that if V and W are irreducible algebraic subvarieties of a projective space P, all over an algebraically closed field, and if

dim(V) + dim (W) > dim (P)

in terms of the dimension of an algebraic variety, then the intersection U of V and W is connected.

More generally, the theorem states that if $Z$ is a projective variety and $f:Z\to P^{n}\times P^{n}$ is any morphism such that $\dim f(Z)>n$ , then $f^{-1}\Delta$ is connected, where $\Delta$ is the diagonal in $P^{n}\times P^{n}$ . The special case of intersections is recovered by taking $Z=V\times W$ , with $f$ the natural inclusion.

References

Fulton, W.; Hansen, J. (1979), "A connectedness theorem for projective varieties with applications to intersections and singularities of mappings", Annals of Math. (Annals of Mathematics) 110 (1): 159–166, doi:10.2307/1971249, JSTOR 1971249
Lazarsfeld, R. (2004), Positivity in Algebraic Geometry, Springer

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Fulton–Hansen connectedness theorem

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