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Universal properties of the Corrado Segre embedding. (English) Zbl 0859.51007

The embedding of the product of two projective spaces into a single projective space is studied. It is shown that the image of such an embedding is essentially the projection of the image of the classical Segre embedding.

MSC:

51M35 Synthetic treatment of fundamental manifolds in projective geometries (Grassmannians, Veronesians and their generalizations)