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Power Sum Decompositions of Elementary Symmetric Polynomials

Algebraic Geometry 2015-08-24 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We bound the tensor ranks of elementary symmetric polynomials, and we give explicit decompositions into powers of linear forms. The bound is attained when the degree is odd.

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@article{arxiv.1508.05235,
  title  = {Power Sum Decompositions of Elementary Symmetric Polynomials},
  author = {Hwangrae Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.05235},
  year   = {2015}
}

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8 pages