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Unique decomposition for a polynomial of low rank

Algebraic Geometry 2013-05-07 v1

Abstract

Let FF be a homogeneous polynomial of degree dd in m+1m+1 variables defined over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0 and suppose that FF belongs to the ss-th secant variety of the dd-uple Veronese embedding of Pm\mathbb{P}^m into \PP(m+dd)1 \PP {{m+d\choose d}-1} but that its minimal decomposition as a sum of dd-th powers of linear forms requires more than ss addenda. We show that if sds\leq d then FF can be uniquely written as F=M1d++Mtd+QF=M_1^d+\cdots + M_t^d+Q, where M1,,MtM_1, \ldots, M_t are linear forms with t(d1)/2t\leq (d-1)/2, and QQ a binary form such that Q=i=1qliddimiQ=\sum_{i=1}^q l_i^{d-d_i}m_i with lil_i's linear forms and mim_i's forms of degree did_i such that (di+1)=st\sum (d_i+1)=s-t.

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@article{arxiv.1305.1219,
  title  = {Unique decomposition for a polynomial of low rank},
  author = {E. Ballico and A. Bernardi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.1219},
  year   = {2013}
}

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