Equations defining secant varieties: geometry and computation

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-19492-4_9MaRDI QIDQ2914671zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jessica Sidman, Peter Vermeire

Publication date 20 September 2012

Published in Combinatorial Aspects of Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.0989

zbMATH Keywords

projective normalitysecant varietysyzygy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Syzygies, resolutions, complexes and commutative rings (13D02) Curves in algebraic geometry (14H99) Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05) Computational aspects of algebraic curves (14Q05)

Abstract: In the 1980's, work of Green and Lazarsfeld helped to uncover the beautiful interplay between the geometry of the embedding of a curve and the syzygies of its defining equations. Similar results hold for the first secant variety of a curve, and there is a natural conjectural picture extending to higher secant varieties as well. We present an introduction to the algebra and geometry used in previous work of the authors to study syzygies of secant varieties of curves with an emphasis on examples of explicit computations and elementary cases that illustrate the geometric principles at work.

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