Expressing forms as a sum of Pfaffians

DOI10.13137/0049-4704/11218MaRDI QIDQ2809905zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luca Chiantini

Publication date 30 May 2016

Published in Rendiconti dell'Istituto di Matematica dell'Università di Trieste (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.04408

zbMATH Keywords

Pfaffians

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector bundles on surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties, and their moduli (14J60) Classical problems, Schubert calculus (14N15)

Abstract: Let A= (a_{ij}) be a symmetric non-negative integer 2k x 2k matrix. A is homogeneous if a_{ij} + a_{kl}=a_{il} + a_{kj} for any choice of the four indexes. Let A be a homogeneous matrix and let F be a general form in C[x_1, dots x_n] with 2deg(F) = trace(A). We look for the least integer, s(A), so that F= pfaff(M_1) + cdots + pfaff(M_{s(A)}), where the M_i's are 2k x 2k skew-symmetric matrices of forms with degree matrix A. We consider this problem for n= 4 and we prove that s(A) < k+1 for all A.

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