Gorenstein Artin algebras, additive decompositions of forms and the punctual Hilbert scheme (Q4938514)

This is a survey of recent works of several people on the relation between the Waring's problem (concerning the representation of the \(j\)-forms of \(R=K[X_1,\ldots, X_n]\) as a sum of \(j\)-powers of linear forms), families PGOR\((T)\) of graded Artin algebra quotients of \(R\) having Hilbert function \(T\) and the Hilbert scheme parametrizing locally Gorenstein punctual subschemes of projective space [see also \textit{A. Iarrobino} and \textit{V. Kanev}, ``Power sums, Gorenstein algebras, and determinantal loci'', Lect. Notes Math. 1721 (1999; Zbl 0942.14026)]. The author studies the dimension, the closure and the irreducibility problems on the families PS\((s,j,n)\subset {\mathbb P}^N\), \(N={n+j\choose n}\) parametrizing the degree \(j\) homogeneous polynomials \(f\) of \(R\) which can be written as \(f=L_1^j+\cdots +L_s^j\) for some linear forms \(L_i\), the determinantal varieties of the catalecticant matrices Cat\(_F(u,v,n)\), \(u+v=j\) (the catalecticant matrices extend the well known Hankel matrices of case \(n=2\)), PGOR\((T)\), the quoted Hilbert scheme, etc.. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0921.00043].