Coordinate-wise powers of algebraic varieties

DOI10.1007/S13366-019-00481-8MaRDI QIDQ784763zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Papri Dey, Paul Görlach, Nidhi Kaihnsa

Publication date 3 August 2020

Published in Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.03295

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic varietiescoordinate-wise powerHadamard powerorthostochastic matrix

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05) Configurations and arrangements of linear subspaces (14N20) Questions of classical algebraic geometry (51N35)

Abstract: We introduce and study coordinate-wise powers of subvarieties of $mathbb{P}^n$, i.e. varieties arising from raising all points in a given subvariety of $mathbb{P}^n$ to the $r$-th power, coordinate by coordinate. This corresponds to studying the image of a subvariety of $mathbb{P}^n$ under the quotient of $mathbb{P}^n$ by the action of the finite group $mathbb{Z}_r^{n+1}$. We determine the degree of coordinate-wise powers and study their defining equations, particularly for hypersurfaces and linear spaces. Applying these results, we compute the degree of the variety of orthostochastic matrices and determine iterated dual and reciprocal varieties of power sum hypersurfaces. We also establish a link between coordinate-wise squares of linear spaces and the study of real symmetric matrices with a degenerate eigenspectrum.

Review text

This article studies the image \(X^{\circ r}\) of a subvariety \(X\) of \(\mathbb{P}^n\) under the map \(\varphi_r\colon [x_0:\ldots:x_n] \mapsto [x_0^r:\ldots:x_n^r]\), mostly for \(r \in \mathbb{N}\), but also for negative exponents (with possible extensions to rational exponents). For \(r = -1\), the map \(\varphi_r\) is a Cremona transformation and \(X^{\circ -1}\) is the well-known reciprocal variety. The degree of \(X^{\circ r}\) is given by the formula \[ \deg X^{\circ r} = \frac{f}{s} r^{\dim X} \deg X \] where \(f\) and \(s\) are the numbers of elements of a certain finite projective subgroup that fix or stabilize \(X\), respectively. As application, the authors compute the degree of the variety of orthostochastic matrices and the \(\varphi_r\)-image of linear subspaces. Their degree depends only on the subspace's linear matroid. The authors explicitly describe the \(\varphi_r\)-image of hypersurfaces and explain the difficulties in extending these results to arbitrary varieties. This leads to the concept of ``\(r\)-th power bases and raises interesting questions for further research. The last chapter of this rich article is dedicated to the classification of the \(\varphi_2\)-images of low dimensional linear spaces and a description of the \(\varphi_2\)-image of general linear spaces of arbitrary dimension and large co-dimension.

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