The Hessian map

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNAA288MaRDI QIDQ5071147zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ciro Ciliberto, Giorgio Ottaviani

Publication date 20 April 2022

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07213, http://hdl.handle.net/2158/1218720

zbMATH Keywords

birational mapsWaring rankHessian hypersurface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rationally connected varieties (14M22) Hypersurfaces and algebraic geometry (14J70) Secant varieties, tensor rank, varieties of sums of powers (14N07)

Abstract: In this paper we study the Hessian map $h_{d,r}$ which associates to any hypersurface of degree $d$ in ${mathbbP}^r$ its Hessian hypersurface. We study general properties of this map and we prove that: $h_{d,1}$ is birational onto its image if $dgeq5$; we study in detail the maps $h_{3,1}$, $h_{4,1}$ and $h_{3,2}$; we study the restriction of the Hessian map to the locus of hypersurfaces of degree $d$ with Waring rank $r+2$ in ${mathbbP}^r$, proving that this restriction is injective as soon as $rgeq2$ and $dgeq3$, which implies that $h_{3,3}$ is birational onto its image; we prove that the differential of the Hessian map is of maximal rank on the generic hypersurfaces of degree $d$ with Waring rank $r+2$ in ${mathbbP}^r$, as soon as $rgeq2$ and $dgeq3$.

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