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We consider the Grassmannian $𝔾r(k,n)$ of $(k+1)$-dimensional linear subspaces of $V_n=H^0({\mathbb{P}}^1,{𝒪}_{{\mathbb{P}}_1}(n))$. We define ${𝔛}_{k,r,d}$ as the classifying space of the $k$-dimensional linear systems of degree $n$ on ${\mathbb{P}}^1$, whose bases realize a fixed number $r$ of polynomial relations of fixed degree $d$, say $r$ syzygies of degree $d$. Firstly, we compute the dimension of ${𝔛}_{k,r,d}$. In the second part we make a link between ${𝔛}_{k,r,d}$ and the Poncelet varieties. In particular, we prove that the existence of linear syzygies implies the existence of singularities on the Poncelet varieties....

This article presents the theory of focal locus applied to the hypersurfaces in the projective space which are (finitely) covered by linear spaces and such that the tangent space is constant along these spaces.