Hankel planes (Q863901)

In the previous paper [\textit{S. Giuffrida} and \textit{R. Maggionni}, Commun. Algebra 30, No. 5, 2445-2467 (2002; Zbl 1054.14044)] the problem of describing the multiplicative structure of the Rao module \(M(C)\) of a curve \(C\) lying on a smooth quadratic surface \({\mathbf Q} \subseteq {\mathbb P}^3\) was considered. The complete description of the matrix \(M\) associated to the mapping with respect to suitable bases \(M_n\) and \(M_{n+m}\) was given for \(m=1,2\). In this paper, the same problem is considered in a more general way. Starting from a rectangular matrix \(A \in k^{m+1,n+1}\) the Toeplitz matrix \(T_A^{\rho}(p)\) for any \(p \geq 0\) is constructed and the connection between the rank of \(A\) and \(T_A^{\rho}(p)\) is studied. Properties of the vector space \(R_A(p)\) of the relations among the rows of the matrix \(A\) are needed. As a tool the Hankel \(s\)-planes which contain \(s+1\) points whose coordinates are rows of a Hankel matrix are used. The subvariety of Hankel \(s\)-planes in the Grassmannian \(G(s,m) \subseteq {\mathbb P}^N \) is invariant under the action of the projectivities of \({\mathbb P}^N\). Finally, the dimensions of the spaces \(R(j)\) of relations among the rows of \(T_A^{\rho}(j)\) are given.