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.
Reviewer: J.W.P.Hirschfeld (Falmer)
MSC:
51M35 | Synthetic treatment of fundamental manifolds in projective geometries (Grassmannians, Veronesians and their generalizations) |