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On rational maps and deformations of quadric and cubic hypersurfaces. (English) Zbl 0586.14005

It is proved that smooth specializations of hypersurfaces of degree at most three in projective space of dimension at least four are again hypersurfaces.
Reviewer: S.A.Strømme

MSC:

14E05 Rational and birational maps
14J25 Special surfaces
14D15 Formal methods and deformations in algebraic geometry
14J30 \(3\)-folds