Brill's equations as a \(\mathrm{GL}(V)\)-module (Q1748088)

Let \(V\) be a finite dimensional complex vector space. The author is interested in the Chow variety \(\mathrm{Ch}_d(V)\) of polynomials of degree \(d\), which decompose completely into linear factors. This variety is contained in \(\mathbb{P}S^dV\) and study of its equations is a subject of interest in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra with a long tradition. The Chow variety \(\mathrm{Ch}_d(V)\) is invariant under the action of \(\mathrm{GL}(V)\) induced on the symmetric algebra of \(V\). Thus the ideal of \(\mathrm{Ch}_d(V)\) has a structure of a \(\mathrm{GL}(V)\)-module. The author is interested in the ideal of the set \(\mathrm{Ch}_d(V)\) (that is, he ignores the scheme structure). The main result of this article is Theorem 1.1 which identifies the \(\mathrm{GL}(V)\)-module structure of the graded part of the ideal of \(\mathrm{Ch}_d(V)\) in an explicit way. The methods are standard tools from the representation theory rendered by clever explicit calculations.