%0 Journal Article
%T On branched coverings of some homogeneous spaces
%A Meeyoung Kim
%A Laurent Manivel
%J Mathematics
%D 1998
%I arXiv
%X We study nonsingular branched coverings of a homogeneous space X. There is a vector bundle associated with such a covering which was conjectured by O. Debarre to be ample when the Picard number of X is one. We prove this conjecture, which implies Barth-Lefschetz type theorems, for lagrangian grassmannians, and for quadrics up to dimension six. We propose a conjectural extension to homogeneous spaces of Picard number larger than one and prove a weaker version.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9806126v1