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Chordal varieties of Veronese varieties and catalecticant matrices

Algebraic Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 Commutative Algebra

Abstract

It is proved that the chordal variety of the Veronese variety v_d(P^n) is projectively normal, arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay and its homogeneous ideal is generated by the 3 x 3 minors of two catalecticant matrices. These results are generalized to the catalecticant varieties Gor_{\leq}(T) with t_1 = 2. We also give a simplified proof of a theorem of O. Porras about the rank varieties of symmetric tensors.

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@article{arxiv.math/9804141,
  title  = {Chordal varieties of Veronese varieties and catalecticant matrices},
  author = {Vassil Kanev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9804141},
  year   = {2007}
}

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