Euclidean distance degree of projective varieties

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNZ266zbMATH Open1481.14092arXiv1901.05550OpenAlexW2983462479WikidataQ127232687 ScholiaQ127232687MaRDI QIDQ5021183FDOQ5021183

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)

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.

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

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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