Equations for secant varieties of Chow varieties

The Chow variety of polynomials that decompose as a product of linear forms has been studied for more than 100 years. Finding equations in the ideal of secant varieties of Chow varieties would enable one to prove Valiant's conjecture [Formula: see text]. In this paper, I use the method of prolongation to obtain equations for secant varieties of Chow varieties as [Formula: see text]-modules.

On totally reducible binary forms: II.

International audience Let $f$ be a binary form of degree $l\geq3$, that is, a product of linear forms with integer coefficients. The principal result of this paper is an asymptotic formula of the shape $n^{2/l}(C(f)+O(n^{-\eta_l+\varepsilon}))$ for the number of positive integers not exceeding $n$ that are representable by $f$; here $C(f)>0$ and $\eta_l>0$.