Back to matchesWe found a matchYour institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.TitleInductive characterizations of hyperquadrics.AuthorsBaohua FuAbstractAbstract  We give two characterizations of hyperquadrics: one as non-degenerate smooth projective varieties swept out by large dimensional quadric subvarieties passing through a point; the other as LQEL-manifolds with large secant defects.SubjectsMANIFOLDS (Mathematics); DIFFERENTIAL geometry; TOPOLOGY; MATHEMATICSPublicationMathematische Annalen, 2008, Vol 340, Issue 1, p185ISSN0025-5831Publication typeArticle