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Computing the Chow variety of quadratic space curves

Algebraic Geometry 2023-06-12 v2 Symbolic Computation

Abstract

Quadrics in the Grassmannian of lines in 3-space form a 19-dimensional projective space. We study the subvariety of coisotropic hypersurfaces. Following Gel'fand, Kapranov and Zelevinsky, it decomposes into Chow forms of plane conics, Chow forms of pairs of lines, and Hurwitz forms of quadric surfaces. We compute the ideals of these loci.

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@article{arxiv.1508.07219,
  title  = {Computing the Chow variety of quadratic space curves},
  author = {Peter Bürgisser and Kathlén Kohn and Pierre Lairez and Bernd Sturmfels},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.07219},
  year   = {2023}
}