Rank and border rank of real ternary cubics

DOI10.1007/S40574-015-0027-ZMaRDI QIDQ496273zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maurizio Banchi

Publication date 21 September 2015

Published in Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.8447

zbMATH Keywords

border rankcubic formsDe Paolis algorithmranksymmetric tensorsternary cubicstypical rankWaring rank

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus (14H45) Vector spaces, linear dependence, rank, lineability (15A03) Vector and tensor algebra, theory of invariants (15A72)

Abstract: In this work we give the classification of real ternary cubic forms with respect to rank and border rank up to SL(3)-action and we examine the differences with the complex case.

Review text

There are \(16\) equivalence classes of real ternary cubics, up to \(\mathrm{SL}(3)\)-action. For each class, the author computes the rank (the minimal number of summands in decomposition into the scalar multiples of cubes of linear forms), and border rank (a limit variant of the same notion). The complex case was considered by classics (Sylvester, Clebsch, et al.) at the second half of the XIXth century, and later put on the computational footing. The real case naturally offers additional difficulties. The problem has numerous applications in engineering, statistics, computer science, etc. The methods are elementary.

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