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Strict inclusions of high rank loci

Algebraic Geometry 2019-07-16 v1

Abstract

For a given projective variety XX, the high rank loci are the closures of the sets of points whose XX-rank is higher than the generic one. We show examples of strict inclusion between two consecutive high rank loci. Our first example is for the Veronese surface of plane quartics. Although Piene had already shown an example when XX is a curve, we construct infinitely many curves in P4\mathbb P^4 for which such strict inclusion appears. For space curves, we give two criteria to check whether the locus of points of maximal rank 3 is finite (possibly empty).

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@article{arxiv.1907.06203,
  title  = {Strict inclusions of high rank loci},
  author = {Edoardo Ballico and Alessandra Bernardi and Emanuele Ventura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.06203},
  year   = {2019}
}

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12 pp