The apolar algebra of a product of linear forms
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DOI10.1145/3373207.3404014zbMATH Open1516.14109arXiv2002.04818WikidataQ130995510 ScholiaQ130995510MaRDI QIDQ6334641FDOQ6334641
Authors: Michael R. DiPasquale, Zachary Flores, Chris Peterson 
Publication date: 12 February 2020
Abstract: Apolarity is an important tool in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry which studies a form, , by the action of polynomial differential operators on . The quotient of all polynomial differential operators by those which annihilate is called the apolar algebra of . In general, the apolar algebra of a form is useful for determining its Waring rank, which can be seen as the problem of decomposing the supersymmetric tensor, associated to the form, minimally as a sum of rank one supersymmetric tensors. In this article we study the apolar algebra of a product of linear forms, which generalizes the case of monomials and connects to the geometry of hyperplane arrangements. In the first part of the article we provide a bound on the Waring rank of a product of linear forms under certain genericity assumptions; for this we use the defining equations of so-called star configurations due to Geramita, Harbourne, and Migliore. In the second part of the article we use the computer algebra system Bertini, which operates by homotopy continuation methods, to solve certain rank equations for catalecticant matrices. Our computations suggest that, up to a change of variables, there are exactly six homogeneous polynomials of degree six in three variables which factor completely as a product of linear forms defining an irreducible multi-arrangement and whose apolar algebras have dimension six in degree three. As a consequence of these calculations, we find six cases of such forms with cactus rank six, five of which also have Waring rank six. Among these are products defining subarrangements of the braid and Hessian arrangements.
Symbolic computation and algebraic computation (68W30) Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05) Configurations and arrangements of linear subspaces (14N20) Geometric aspects of numerical algebraic geometry (14Q65)
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