Waring rank of symmetric tensors, and singularities of some projective hypersurfaces

DOI10.1007/S00009-020-01609-0MaRDI QIDQ2211664zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Gabriel Sticlaru, Alexandru Dimca

Publication date 12 November 2020

Published in Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01351

zbMATH Keywords

hyperplane arrangementisolated singularityprojective hypersurfaceWaring decompositionWaring rank

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities in algebraic geometry (14B05) Hypersurfaces and algebraic geometry (14J70) Secant varieties, tensor rank, varieties of sums of powers (14N07) Local complex singularities (32S05) Relations with arrangements of hyperplanes (32S22)

Abstract: We show that if a homogeneous polynomial $f$ in $n$ variables has Waring rank $n+1$, then the corresponding projective hypersurface $f=0$ has at most isolated singularities, and the type of these singularities is completely determined by the combinatorics of a hyperplane arrangement naturally associated with the Waring decomposition of $f$. We also discuss the relation between the Waring rank and the type of singularities on a plane curve, when this curve is defined by the suspension of a binary form, or when the Waring rank is 5.

Review text

Let \(f\) be a form in \(\mathbb{C}[x_1,\ldots,x_n]\) of degree \(d\). The Waring rank of \(f\) is the minimal value of \(r\) for which there exist linear forms \(\ell_1,\ldots,\ell_r\) such that \[ (\mathcal{D})~f = \ell_1^d + \cdots + \ell_r^d. \] The paper deals with the connection between the hyperplane arrangement \(V_{\mathcal{D}} : f=0\) and the Boolean hypersurface \(A_{\mathcal{D}}: \ell_1 \cdots \ell_r = 0\). The main result is for the case \(r = n+1\). The authors show that the hypersurface \(V_{\mathcal{D}}\) has at most isolated singularities, and that the type of these singularities are completely determined by the combinatorics of \(A_{\mathcal{D}}\). When \(n=3\), the possible singularities of the curve \(V_{\mathcal{D}}\) are determined for two additional cases. The first is when \(A_{\mathcal{D}}\) has a point of multiplicity \(r-1\), and the second concerns two out of the four possible line arrangements for \(A_{\mathcal{D}}\) when \(r=5\).

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