Secant varieties and degrees of invariants

DOI10.7546/JGSP-51-2019-73-85zbMATH Open1440.13032arXiv1811.12048OpenAlexW2964035568WikidataQ127903610 ScholiaQ127903610MaRDI QIDQ2279795FDOQ2279795

Authors: V. V. Tsanov 

Publication date: 16 December 2019

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Symmetry in Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The ring of invariant polynomials $mathbbC[V{]}^G$ over a given finite dimensional representation space $V$ of a complex reductive group $G$ is known, by a famous theorem of Hilbert, to be finitely generated. The general proof being nonconstructive, the generators and their degrees have remained a subject of interest. In this article we determine certain divisors of the degrees of the generators. Also, for irreducible representations, we provide lower bounds for the degrees, determined by the geometric properties of the unique closed projective $G$-orbit $mathbbX$, and more specifically its secant varieties. For a particular class of representations, where the secant varieties are especially well behaved, we exhibit an exact correspondence between the generating invariants and the secant varieties intersecting the semistable locus.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12048

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zbMATH Keywords

flag varietysecant varietiesmomentum mapreductive groupinvariant ringdegrees of generators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Actions of groups on commutative rings; invariant theory (13A50) Linear algebraic groups over the reals, the complexes, the quaternions (20G20) Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Geometric invariant theory (14L24) Secant varieties, tensor rank, varieties of sums of powers (14N07)

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