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

DOI10.2140/ANT.2011.5.75zbMATH Open1238.14035arXiv0809.4236OpenAlexW2003688125MaRDI QIDQ646478FDOQ646478

Luke Oeding

Publication date: 17 November 2011

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

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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.4236

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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)

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