Euclidean distance degree of projective varieties
Algebraic Geometry
2019-01-30 v2 Algebraic Topology
Abstract
We give a positive answer to a conjecture of Aluffi-Harris on the computation of the Euclidean distance degree of a possibly singular projective variety in terms of the local Euler obstruction function.
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@article{arxiv.1901.05550,
title = {Euclidean distance degree of projective varieties},
author = {Laurentiu G. Maxim and Jose Israel Rodriguez and Botong Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.05550},
year = {2019}
}
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10 pages. Key words: Euclidean distance degree, Euler characteristic, local Euler obstruction function