An Invariant Regarding Waring’s Problem for Cubic Polynomials

DOI10.1017/S0027763000026040MaRDI QIDQ3618630zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Giorgio Ottaviani

Publication date 2 April 2009

Published in Nagoya Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.2527, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.nmj/1236089982

zbMATH Keywords

secant varietiesWaring problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Divisors, linear systems, invertible sheaves (14C20) Classical groups (algebro-geometric aspects) (14L35) Determinantal varieties (14M12) Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05)

Abstract: We compute the equation of the 7-secant variety to the Veronese variety (P^4,O(3)), its degree is 15. This is the last missing invariant in the Alexander-Hirschowitz classification. It gives the condition to express a homogeneous cubic polynomial in 5 variables as the sum of 7 cubes (Waring problem). The interesting side in the construction is that it comes from the determinant of a matrix of order 45 with linear entries, which is a cube. The same technique allows to express the classical Aronhold invariantof plane cubics as a pfaffian.

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