Euclidean distance degree of projective varieties

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNZ266MaRDI QIDQ5021183zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Laurentiu Maxim, Jose Israel Rodriguez, Botong Wang

Publication date 12 January 2022

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.05550

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Secant varieties, tensor rank, varieties of sums of powers (14N07) Effectivity, complexity and computational aspects of algebraic geometry (14Q20)

Abstract: We give a positive answer to a conjecture of Aluffi-Harris on the computation of the Euclidean distance degree of a possibly singular projective variety in terms of the local Euler obstruction function.

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