%0 Journal Article %T Quadratic sheaves and self-linkage %A Gianfranco Casnati %A Fabrizio Catanese %J Mathematics %D 2001 %I arXiv %X Generalizing an old result proved by P. Rao [see MR 83i:14025] for arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay, self-linked subschemes of codimension 2 in the projective n-space P, we give a characterization of self-linked pure subschemes of codimension 2 in P satisfying a necessary parity condition, in characteristic different from 2. We make use of the theory of quadratic sheaves described in a previous paper of the authors [see MR 99h:14044]. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0106104v1