The Canonical Module of GT-Varieties and the Normal Bundle of RL-Varieties

In this paper, we study the geometry of GT-varieties $$X_{d}$$ X d with group a finite cyclic group $$\Gamma \subset {{\,\mathrm{GL}\,}}(n+1,\mathbb {K})$$ Γ ⊂ GL ( n + 1 , K ) of order d. We prove that the homogeneous ideal $${{\,\mathrm{I}\,}}(X_{d})$$ I ( X d ) of $$X_{d}$$ X d is generated by binomials of degree at most 3 and we provide examples reaching this bound. We give a combinatorial description of the canonical module of the homogeneous coordinate ring of $$X_{d}$$ X d and we show that it is generated by monomial invariants of $$\Gamma $$ Γ of degree d and 2d. This allows us to characterize the Castelnuovo–Mumford regularity of the homogeneous coordinate ring of $$X_d$$ X d . Finally, we compute the cohomology table of the normal bundle of the so-called RL-varieties. They are projections of the Veronese variety $$\nu _{d}(\mathbb {P}^{n}) \subset \mathbb {P}^{\left( {\begin{array}{c}n+d\\ n\end{array}}\right) -1}$$ ν d ( P n ) ⊂ P n + d n - 1 which naturally arise from level GT-varieties.

On the Terracini Locus of Projective Varieties

We introduce and study properties of the Terracini locus of projective varieties X, which is the locus of finite sets $$S \subset X$$ S ⊂ X such that 2S fails to impose independent conditions to a linear system L. Terracini loci are relevant in the study of interpolation problems over double points in special position, but they also enter naturally in the study of special loci contained in secant varieties to projective varieties.We find some criteria which exclude that a set S belongs to the Terracini locus. Furthermore, in the case where X is a Veronese variety, we bound the dimension of the Terracini locus and we determine examples in which the locus has codimension 1 in the symmetric product of X.

The Hitchhiker Guide to: Secant Varieties and Tensor Decomposition

We consider here the problem, which is quite classical in Algebraic geometry, of studying the secant varieties of a projective variety X. The case we concentrate on is when X is a Veronese variety, a Grassmannian or a Segre variety. Not only these varieties are among the ones that have been most classically studied, but a strong motivation in taking them into consideration is the fact that they parameterize, respectively, symmetric, skew-symmetric and general tensors, which are decomposable, and their secant varieties give a stratification of tensors via tensor rank. We collect here most of the known results and the open problems on this fascinating subject.

ON DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE BORDER RANK AND THE SMOOTHABLE RANK OF A POLYNOMIAL

We consider higher secant varieties to Veronese varieties. Most points on the rth secant variety are represented by a finite scheme of length r contained in the Veronese variety – in fact, for a general point, the scheme is just a union of r distinct points. A modern way to phrase it is: the smoothable rank is equal to the border rank for most polynomials. This property is very useful for studying secant varieties, especially, whenever the smoothable rank is equal to the border rank for all points of the secant variety in question. In this note, we investigate those special points for which the smoothable rank is not equal to the border rank. In particular, we show an explicit example of a cubic in five variables with border rank 5 and smoothable rank 6. We also prove that all cubics in at most four variables have the smoothable rank equal to the border rank.

An Invariant Regarding Waring’s Problem for Cubic Polynomials

We compute the equation of the 7-secant variety to the Veronese variety (P4,O(3)), its degree is 15. This is the last missing invariant in the Alexander-Hirschowitz classification. It gives the condition to express a homogeneous cubic polynomial in 5 variables as the sum of 7 cubes (Waring problem). The interesting side in the construction is that it comes from the determinant of a matrix of order 45 with linear entries, which is a cube. The same technique allows to express the classical Aronhold invariant of plane cubics as a pfaffian.

Tangent loci and certain linear sections of adjoint varieties

An adjoint variety X(g)associated to a complex simple Lie algebra is by definition a projective variety in ℙ*(g) obtained as the projectivization of the (unique) non-zero, minimal nilpotent orbit in g. We first describe the tangent loci of X(g) in terms of triples. Secondly for a graded decomposition of contact type we show that the intersection of X(g) and the linear subspace ℙ*(g1) in ℙ*(g) coincides with the cubic Veronese variety associated to g.