Linearly dependent subsets of Segre varieties

Abstract: We study the linear algebra of finite subsets

S

of a Segre variety

X

. In particular we classify the pairs

(S, X)

with

S

linear dependent and

. We consider an additional condition for linear dependent sets (no two of their points are contained in a line of

X

) and get far better lower bounds for

in term of the dimension and number of the factors of

X

. In this discussion and in the classification of the case

,

X c o n g m a t h b b P^{1} i m e s m a t h b b P^{1} i m e s m a t h b b P^{1}

we use the rational normal curves

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The author studies finite subsets \(S\) of products \(X=\prod_{i=1}^k \mathbb P^{n_i}\) of projective spaces, with the target of determining conditions for which the set is linearly independent in the Segre embedding \(\nu(X)\) of the product. Since \(\nu(X)\) contains many lines, and sets with many points on a line are clearly linearly dependent, the author assumes that there are no three points of \(\nu(X)\) which are aligned in the Segre varieties. With this natural restriction, the author classifies all subsets \(S\) of cardinality at most \(5\) in a product of projective spaces, whose Segre embedding is linearly dependent. It turns out that, except for trivial cases in which the Segre varieties lies in \(\mathbb P^3\), the minimal products containing such subsets satisfy \(k\leq 3\) and \(\sum n_i=3\).

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