Abstract:
We say that a smooth projective variety $V\subset\mathbb{P}^n$ extends $m$
steps nontrivially if there exists a projective variety
$W\subset\mathbb{P}^{n+m}$ such that $V=W\cap\mathbb{P}^n$, where $W$ is not
a cone, is nonsingular along $V$, and is transversal to $\mathbb{P}^n$.
Following S. Lvovski's work, we describe some classes of varieties which
have nontrivial extension and give some estimates for the number of steps
$m$ as well.