Secant non-defectivity via collisions of fat points

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2022.108657MaRDI QIDQ2089640zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Francesco Galuppi, Alessandro Oneto

Publication date 24 October 2022

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.02522

zbMATH Keywords

defectivitydegeneration techniquesfat pointslinear systems of divisorssecant varietiesSegre-Veronese varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hilbert-Samuel and Hilbert-Kunz functions; Poincaré series (13D40) Hypersurfaces and algebraic geometry (14J70) Special varieties (14M99) Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05) Secant varieties, tensor rank, varieties of sums of powers (14N07) Computational aspects of higher-dimensional varieties (14Q15) Multilinear algebra, tensor calculus (15A69)

Abstract: Secant defectivity of projective varieties is classically approached via dimensions of linear systems with multiple base points in general position. The latter can be studied via degenerations. We exploit a technique that allows some of the base points to collapse together. We deduce a general result which we apply to prove a conjecture by Abo and Brambilla: for $cgeq3$ and $dgeq3$, the Segre-Veronese embedding of $mathbb{P}^{m}imesmathbb{P}^n$ in bidegree $(c,d)$ is non-defective.

Review text

The secant variety of a projective variety is called defective if its dimension is equal to its postulated expected dimension. The classificiation of secant varieties has received particular attention for three special varieties, the Segre, Veronese, and Segre-Veronese varieties. The defectiveness of the Veronese variety has been classified by the famous Alexander-Hirschowitz Theorem [\textit{J. Alexander} and \textit{A. Hirschowitz}, J. Algebr. Geom. 4, No. 2, 201--222 (1995; Zbl 0829.14002)]. For the Segre and the Segre-Veronese varieties several defective examples have been found, but a complete classification is still missing. The authors in this work focus on the Segre-Veronese variety on two factors with bi-degree \((a,b)\in\{(3,3),(3,4)(4,4)\}\). The reason is that \textit{H. Abo} and \textit{M. C. Brambilla} [Ann. Mat. Pura Appl. (4) 192, No. 1, 61--92 (2013; Zbl 1262.14065)] proved that as long those cases are non-defective, then the secant varieties of the Segre-Veronese variety with bi-degree \((a,b)\), \(a, b\geq 3\) are also non-defective. Understanding the dimension of those secant varieties can be translated in terms of dimensions of linear systems. The authors employed a degeneration technique introduced in [\textit{L. Evain}, C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris, Sér. I, Math. 325, No. 12, 1305--1308 (1997; Zbl 0905.14005)], where the base points are specialized to a special position, and also allowed to collide together. In such a manner, they are able to prove that the Segre-Veronese variety with bi-degree \((a,b)\in\{(3,3),(3,4),(4,4)\}\) is non-defective, completing the case \(a,b\geq 3\). Moreover, their result leads to the identifiability of the subgeneric minimal decompositions.

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