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Osculating spaces to secant varieties

Algebraic Geometry 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We generalize the classical Terracini's Lemma to higher order osculating spaces to secant varieties. As an application, we address with the so-called Horace method the case of the dd-Veronese embedding of the projective 3-space.

Cite

@article{arxiv.math/0406322,
  title  = {Osculating spaces to secant varieties},
  author = {E. Ballico and C. Bocci and E. Carlini and C. Fontanari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0406322},
  year   = {2007}
}