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© The London Mathematical Society
Singularities of Orbit Closures in Module Varieties and Cones Over Rational Normal Curves
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Nicolaus Copernicus University Chopina 12/18, 87-100 Toru
, Poland gzwara{at}mat.uni.torun.pl
Received 28 July 2005. Revision received 13 February 2006.
Let N be a point of an orbit closure
M in a module variety such that its orbit
N has codimension 2 in
M. We show that under some additional conditions the pointed variety (
M, N) is smoothly equivalent to a cone over a rational normal curve.