Osculating spaces to secant varieties (Q2569869)

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    Osculating spaces to secant varieties
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2217369

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      Osculating spaces to secant varieties (English)
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      26 April 2006
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      Terracini's Lemma computes the tangent space of \(k\)--secant varieties to projective varieties. The authors of the note under review prove a similar statement for osculating spaces to \(k\)--secant varieties of a projective variety. The result is then applied to study special postulation problems.
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      osculating space
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      secant variety
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      Terracini's Lemma
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      Laplace equation
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      Horace method
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