On the dimension of contact loci and the identifiability of tensors

Publication date 13 February 2019

Abstract: Let

X s u b s e t m a t h b b P^{r}

be an integral and non-degenerate variety. Set

n := d i m (X)

. We prove that if the

(k + n - 1)

-secant variety of

X

has (the expected) dimension

(k + n - 1) (n + 1) - 1 < r

and

X

is not uniruled by lines, then

X

is not

k

-weakly defective and hence the

k

-secant variety satisfies identifiability, i.e. a general element of it is in the linear span of a unique

S s u b s e t X

with

s h a r p (S) = k

. We apply this result to many Segre-Veronese varieties and to the identifiability of Gaussian mixtures

G_{1, d}

. If

X

is the Segre embedding of a multiprojective space we prove identifiability for the

k

-secant variety (assuming that the

(k + n - 1)

-secant variety has dimension

(k + n - 1) (n + 1) - 1 < r

, this is a known result in many cases), beating several bounds on the identifiability of tensors.

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