A note on the cactus rank for Segre-Veronese varieties (Q1734214): Difference between revisions

The authors use geometric methods to determine an upper bound for the cactus rank of multi-homogeneous polynomials over algebraically closed fields (with some restrictions on the characteristics). Multi-homogeneous polynomials $F$ are equivalent to partially symmetric tensors, and determine points in the Segre-Veronese embedding $X$ of a product of projective spaces. The \textit{cactus rank} of a polynomial $F$ is the minimal length $r_F$ of a (non-necessarily reduced) subscheme $Z\subset X$ such that $F$ belongs to the linear span of $Z$. \par Assume that $F$ is multi-homogeneous in $s$ sets $Y_1,\dots , Y_s$ of variables, with $Y_i$ consisting of $n_i$ variables, and assume that $F$ has degree $d_i$ in the set of variables $Y_i$. Put $d=\sum d_i$, $n=\sum n_i$. Then the authors prove that the cactus rank $\mathrm{cr}_F$ of $F$ satisfies: $$\begin{matrix} \mathrm{cr}_F\leq 2\binom{n+k}k & \text{ if }d=2k+1\text{ is odd},\\ \mathrm{cr}_F\leq \binom{n+k}k + \binom{n+k+1}{k+1} & \text{ if }d=2k+2\text{ is even}.\end{matrix}$$