Ranks of tensors and a generalization of secant varieties (Q1931761)

The main part of the paper under review essentially is expository, as the authors say in the introduction; however they define some new concepts, \(X\)-rank and \(X\)-border rank. These concepts can be used to uniformly treat questions about tensors, symmetric tensors and partially symmetric tensors. They also have a positive answer to a partially symmetric version of Comon's conjecture in \(C^2\otimes C^b\otimes C^b\). The authors sharp some upper bounds of the rank of tensors in \(C^b\otimes C^b\otimes C^b\) as well. (cf. also ([\textit{A. Bernardi} et al., J. Symb. Comput. 46, No. 1, 34--53 (2011; Zbl 1211.14057); \textit{P. G. Parfenov}, Sb. Math. 192, No. 1, 89--112 (2001); translation from Mat. Sb. 192, No. 1, 89--111 (2001; Zbl 1011.14013); \textit{V. Strassen}, Linear Algebra Appl. 52--53, 645--685 (1983; Zbl 0514.15018)])).