QUADRO-QUADRIC CREMONA MAPS AND VARIETIES 3-CONNECTED BY CUBICS: SEMI-SIMPLE PART AND RADICAL

Abstract

Via the XJC-correspondence proved in [L. Pirio and F. Russo, Extremal varieties 3-rationally connected by cubics, quadro-quadric Cremona transformations and rank 3 Jordan algebras, submitted] we provide some structure theorems for quadro-quadric Cremona transformations and for extremal varieties 3-covered by twisted cubics by reinterpreting for these objects the algebraic results on the solvability of the radical of Jordan algebras. In this way, we can define the semi-simple part and the radical part of a quadro-quadric Cremona transformation, respectively of an extremal variety 3-covered by twisted cubics, and then describe how general objects are constructed from the semi-simple ones, which are completely classified modulo certain equivalences, via suitable null radical extensions.