Relations between the minors of a generic matrix (Q2437409)

Given a \(m\times n\) generic matrix, it is known that the Plücker relation generate the minimal relations of the maximal minors of the matrix and they are the only quadratic minimal relations. For example, let \(X=[x_{ij}]\), \(1\leq i\leq2\), \(1\leq j\leq4\) be a \(2\times4\) generic matrix over a field \(k\). Write \([ij]=x_{1i}x_{2j}-x_{1j}x_{2i}\), one has \([12][34]-[13][24]+[14][23]=0\), the Plücker relation. The relations of non-maximal minors are not known and this paper provides a study of these relations. The authors exhibit the only degree 2 (minimal) relations between 2-minors of an \(m\times n\) matrix are Plücker relations. However this is not true anymore for \(t\)-minors with \(t\geq3\). They describe all the degree 2 relations between \(t\)-minors for any \(t\geq2\). They also exhibit cubic relations and prove that there are no further minimal cubic relations for \(t=2\) and \(t=3\). They conjecture that the highest weight relations they have identified generate the ideal of relations for all \(t,m,n\) (Conjecture 2.12). The approach is through the representation theory of the general linear group and so the authors work over a field of characteristic 0.