Some defective secant varieties to osculating varieties of Veronese surfaces (Q2492120)
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6 June 2006
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In the last years several authors have studied problems related to the (classical) question of determining the dimension of the higher secant varieties to a projective variety \(X\). In particular, the case when \(X\) parameterizes forms (or tensors) is of interest. In the present paper \(X\) is the \(k\)-osculating variety \({\mathcal O}_{k,d}\) to the \(d^{th}\)-Veronese surface (the \(d\)-ple embedding of \({\mathbb P}^2\)), which parameterizes forms of type \(L^{d-k}F\), where \(L\in S_1\), \(F\in S_k\), \(S=K[x_0,x_1,x_2]\). Let \({\mathcal O}^s_{k,d}\) be the variety of the \(s\)-secant \((s-1)\)-planes to \({\mathcal O}_{k,d}\); via Terracini's Lemma and inverse systems one can relate the computation of \(\dim {\mathcal O}_{k,d}^s\) to the one of the Hilbert function (in degree \(d\)) of a 0-dimensional scheme \(Z\subset {\mathbb{P}}^2\) which is supported to \(s\)-generic points. Such Hilbert function is not easy to determine, but with a clever use of quadratic transformations and Horace method (the scheme \(Z\) is ``quite close'' to a scheme of fat points) the authors are able to completely solve the problem when \(s=4,5,6\) or 9 (and they say that also cases \(s=7,8\) could be delt with in the same way). It turns out that for \(s=4,9\) the Hilbert function of \(Z\) is always the expected one, hence the same happens for \(\dim {\mathcal O}_{k,d}^s\), while for \(s=5,6\) all values of \(k,d\) for which \({\mathcal O}_{k,d}^s\) is defective are described. The results confirm a conjecture stated by the authors and others in a previous paper (to appear in Can. J. of Math., see \texttt{math.AG/0403132}).
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