Higher secants of spinor varieties

Abstract: Let

S_{h}

be the even pure spinors variety of a complex vector space

V

of even dimension

2 h

endowed with a non degenerate quadratic form

Q

and let

s i g m a_{k} (S_{h})

be the

k

-secant variety of

S_{h}

. We decribe a probabilistic algorithm which computes the complex dimension of

s i g m a_{k} (S_{h})

. Then, by using an inductive argument, we get our main result:

s i g m a_{3} (S_{h})

has the expected dimension except when

h i n 7, 8

. Also we provide theoretical arguments which prove that

S_{7}

has a defective 3-secant variety and

S_{8}

has defective 3-secant and 4-secant varieties.

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