Polar varieties revisited

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-15081-9_8zbMATH Open1439.14141arXiv1601.03661OpenAlexW195458456MaRDI QIDQ2808010FDOQ2808010

Ragni Piene

Publication date: 25 May 2016

Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We recall the definition of classical polar varieties, as well as those of affine and projective reciprocal polar varieties. The latter are defined with respect to a non-degenerate quadric, which gives us a notion of orthogonality. In particular we relate the reciprocal polar varieties to the "Euclidean geometry" in projective space. The Euclidean distance degree and the degree of the focal loci can be expressed in terms of the ranks, i.e., the degrees of the classical polar varieties, and hence these characters can be found also for singular varieties, when one can express the ranks in terms of the singularities.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.03661

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zbMATH Keywords

Schubert varietiesEuclidean distance degreepolar varietiesfocal locusEuclidean normal bundlereciprocal polar varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05) Adjunction problems (14N30)

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