A probabilistic algorithm for the secant defect of Grassmann varieties

DOI10.1016/J.LAA.2006.03.005MaRDI QIDQ855562zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Barbara McGillivray

Publication date 7 December 2006

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

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

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)

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}.

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