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Secant varieties to osculating varieties of Veronese embeddings of $\mathbb{P}^n$

Algebraic Geometry 2011-05-19 v2 Commutative Algebra

Abstract

A well known theorem by Alexander-Hirschowitz states that all the higher secant varieties of Vn,dV_{n,d} (the dd-uple embedding of Pn\mathbb{P}^n) have the expected dimension, with few known exceptions. We study here the same problem for Tn,dT_{n,d}, the tangential variety to Vn,dV_{n,d}, and prove a conjecture, which is the analogous of Alexander-Hirschowitz theorem, for n9n\leq 9. Moreover. we prove that it holds for any n,dn,d if it holds for d=3d=3. Then we generalize to the case of Ok,n,dO_{k,n,d}, the kk-osculating variety to Vn,dV_{n,d}, proving, for n=2n=2, a conjecture that relates the defectivity of σs(Ok,n,d)\sigma_s(O_{k,n,d}) to the Hilbert function of certain sets of fat points in Pn\mathbb{P}^n.

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@article{arxiv.0807.2455,
  title  = {Secant varieties to osculating varieties of Veronese embeddings of $\mathbb{P}^n$},
  author = {A. Bernardi and M. V. Catalisano and A. Gimigliano and M. Idà},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.2455},
  year   = {2011}
}

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23 pages