Set-theoretic defining equations of the variety of principal minors of symmetric matrices

DOI10.2140/ANT.2011.5.75MaRDI QIDQ646478zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luke Oeding

Publication date 17 November 2011

Published in Algebra \& Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.4236, http://msp.berkeley.edu/ant/2011/5-1/p04.xhtml

zbMATH Keywords

representation theorysymmetric matriceshyperdeterminant\(G\)-modulevariety of principal minors\(G\)-varietyhyperdeterminantal moduleprincipal minorsrelations among minors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multilinear algebra, tensor calculus (15A69) Vector and tensor algebra, theory of invariants (15A72) Determinantal varieties (14M12) Inverse problems in linear algebra (15A29) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05)

Abstract: The variety of principal minors of $nimesn$ symmetric matrices, denoted $Z_n$, is invariant under the action of a group $GsubsetGL(2^n)$ isomorphic to $G$. We describe an irreducible $G$-module of degree $4$ polynomials constructed from Cayley's $2imes2imes2$ hyperdeterminant and show that it cuts out $Z_n$ set-theoretically. This solves the set-theoretic version of a conjecture of Holtz and Sturmfels. Standard techniques from representation theory and geometry are explored and developed for the proof of the conjecture and may be of use for studying similar $G$-varieties.

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