A probabilistic algorithm for the secant defect of Grassmann varieties

DOI10.1016/J.LAA.2006.03.005zbMATH Open1105.65043arXivmath/0511683OpenAlexW2016357765MaRDI QIDQ855562FDOQ855562

Authors: Barbara McGillivray 

Publication date: 7 December 2006

Published in: Linear Algebra and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we study the higher secant varieties of Grassmann varieties in relation to Waring's problem for alternating tensors and to Alexander-Hirschowitz theorem. We show how to identify defective higher secant varieties of Grassmannians using a probabilistic method involving Terracini's Lemma, and we describe an algorithm which can compute, by numerical methods, dim(G(k,n)^{s}) for n<=14. Our main result is that, except for Grassmannians of lines, if n<=14 and k<=(n-1)/2 (if n=14 we have studied the case k<=5) there are only the four known defective cases: G(2,6)^{3}, G(3,7)^{3}, G(3,7)^{4} and G(2,8)^{4}.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0511683

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zbMATH Keywords

numerical examplesWaring's problemsecant varietyAlexander-Hirschowitz theoremTerracini's lemma

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector and tensor algebra, theory of invariants (15A72) Waring's problem and variants (11P05) Algebraic number theory computations (11Y40) Exterior algebra, Grassmann algebras (15A75)

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Uses Software

• Macaulay2

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