On homaloidal polynomial functions of degree 3 and prehomogeneous vector spaces

DOI10.1007/S13348-011-0046-8MaRDI QIDQ1944725zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pierre-Emmanuel Chaput, Pietro Sabatino

Publication date 27 March 2013

Published in Collectanea Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.5975

zbMATH Keywords

homalidal polynomialJordan algebrasMultiplicative Legendre transformPrehomogeneous symmetric spacePrehomogeneous vector spacesProjective geometrySecant varietySeveri varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Prehomogeneous vector spaces (11S90) Rational and birational maps (14E05) Birational automorphisms, Cremona group and generalizations (14E07) Low codimension problems in algebraic geometry (14M07) Homogeneous spaces and generalizations (14M17) Simple, semisimple Jordan algebras (17C20)

Abstract: In this paper we consider homaloidal polynomial functions $f$ such that their multiplicative Legendre transform $f_{\ast }$, defined as in cite[Section3.2]{MR1890194}, is again polynomial. Following Dolgachev cite{MR1786486}, we call such polynomials EKP-homaloidal. We prove that every EKP-homaloidal polynomial function of degree three is a relative invariant of a symmetric prehomogeneous vector space. This provides a complete proof of cite[Theorem 3.10, p.~39]{MR1890194}. With respect to the original argument of Etingof, Kazhdan and Polischuk our argument focuses more on prehomogeneous vector spaces and, in principle, it may suggest a way to attack the more general problem raised in cite[Section 3.4]{MR1890194} of classification of EKP-homaloidal polynomials of arbitrary degree.

Review text

From authors' abstract: We consider homaloidal polynomial functions \(f\) such that their multiplicative Legendre transform \(f_{*}\), defined as in Section 3.2 of [\textit{P. Etingof, D. Kazhdan} and \textit{A. Polishchuk}, Sel. Math., New Ser. 8, No. 1, 27--66 (2002; Zbl 1037.11080)], is again polynomial. Following \textit{I. V. Dolgachev} [Mich. Math. J. 48, Spec. Vol., 191--202 (2000; Zbl 1080.14511)], we call such polynomials EKP-homaloidal. We prove that every EKP-homaloidal polynomial function of degree three is a relative invariant of a symmetric prehomogeneous vector space. This provides a complete proof of Theorem 3.10, p.~39 in [Zbl 1037.11080]. With respect to the original argument of Etingof, Kazhdan and Polischuk our argument focuses more on prehomogeneous vector spaces and, in principle, it may suggest a way to attack the more general problem raised in Section 3.4 of [Zbl 1037.11080] of classification of EKP-homaloidal polynomials of arbitrary degree.

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