Towards a geometric approach to Strassen's asymptotic rank conjecture

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Abstract: We make a first geometric study of three varieties in mathbbCmotimesmathbbCmotimesmathbbCm (for each m), including the Zariski closure of the set of tight tensors, the tensors with continuous regular symmetry. Our motivation is to develop a geometric framework for Strassen's Asymptotic Rank Conjecture that the asymptotic rank of any tight tensor is minimal. In particular, we determine the dimension of the set of tight tensors. We prove that this dimension equals the dimension of the set of oblique tensors, a less restrictive class introduced by Strassen.


In this manuscript, first the authors give a short review of the classes of tensors they will work with, namely \textit{tight}, \textit{oblique} and \textit{free} tensors. They also recall briefly the kind of tensor ranks that they will use such as border rank and asymptotic rank. After this short introduction they state a series of conjectures both previously stated and new, and explain how this conjectures relate to each other. The authors also compute the dimension of the set of tight, oblique and free tensors. All this results are connected with Strassen's asymptotic rank conjecture which in simple terms says that the exponent of matrix multiplication is two. It is also proved some results regarding compressibility and slice rank of tensors, both in a general setting and in particular cases. These results give evidence to favor some of the conjectures.











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