Related papers: Equations for polar grassmannians

We pose and solve the equivalence problem for subspaces of ${\mathcal P}_n$, the $(n+1)$ dimensional vector space of univariate polynomials of degree $\leq n$. The group of interest is ${\rm SL}_2$ acting by projective transformations on…

In this paper we discuss the dimensions of the (higher) secant varieties to the Grassmann varieties, embedded via the Plucker embeddings. We use Terracini's Lemma and the duality in the exterior algebra of a finite dimensional vector space…

In this paper we compute the generating rank of $k$-polar Grassmannians defined over commutative division rings. Among the new results, we compute the generating rank of $k$-Grassmannians arising from Hermitian forms of Witt index $n$…

Let $V$ be an $n$-dimensional left vector space over a division ring $R$. We write ${\mathcal G}_{k}(V)$ for the Grassmannian formed by $k$-dimensional subspaces of $V$ and denote by $\Gamma_{k}(V)$ the associated Grassmann graph. Let also…

S. Alesker has shown that if $G$ is a compact subgroup of O(n) acting transitively on the unit sphere $S^{n-1}$ then the vector space $Val^G$ of continuous, translation-invariant, $G$-invariant convex valuations on $R^n$ has the structure…

In 1992, P. Pol\'{a}\v{c}ik\cite{P2} showed that one could linearly imbed any vector fields into a scalar semi-linear parabolic equation on $\Omega$ with Neumann boundary condition provided that there exists a smooth vector field…

Given polar spaces $(V,\beta)$ and $(V,Q)$ where $V$ is a vector space over a field $K$, $\beta$ a reflexive sesquilinear form and $Q$ a quadratic form, we have associated classical isometry groups. Given a subfield $F$ of $K$ and an…

Let $\cal P$ be a non-degenerate polar space. In [I. Cardinali, L. Giuzzi, A. Pasini, "The generating rank of a polar grassmannian", Adv. Geom. 21:4 (2021), 515-539 doi:10.1515/advgeom-2021-0022 (arXiv:1906.10560)] we introduced an…

Let $V$ be a $(d+1)$-dimensional vector space over a field $\mathbb{F}$. Sesquilinear forms over $V$ have been largely studied when they are reflexive and hence give rise to a (possibly degenerate) polarity of the $d$-dimensional projective…

Let $Gr(k,n)$ be the Pl\"ucker embedding of the Grassmann variety of projective $k$-planes in $\P n$. For a projective variety $X$, let $\sigma_s(X)$ denote the variety of its $s-1$ secant planes. More precisely, $\sigma_s(X)$ denotes the…

Let Gamma be the K-shadow space of a spherical building Delta. An embedding V of Gamma is called polarized if it affords all "singular" hyperplanes of Gamma. Suppose that Delta is associated to a Chevalley group G. Then Gamma can be…

We consider the Grassman manifold $G(E)$ as the subset of all orthogonal projections of a given Euclidean space $E$ and obtain some explicit formulas concerning the differential geometry of $G(E)$ as a submanifold of $L(E,E)$ endowed with…

Let $V$ be an $n$-dimensional vector space ($4\le n <\infty$) and let ${\mathcal G}_{k}(V)$ be the Grassmannian formed by all $k$-dimensional subspaces of $V$. The corresponding Grassmann graph will be denoted by $\Gamma_{k}(V)$. We…

Let $\widetilde{I}_{2n,k}$ denote the space of $k$-dimensional, oriented isotropic subspaces of $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$, called the oriented isotropic Grassmannian. Let $f \colon \widetilde{I}_{2n,k} \rightarrow \widetilde{I}_{2m,l} $ be a map…

In this paper we compute the dimension of the Grassmann embeddings of the polar Grassmannians associated to a possibly degenerate Hermitian, alternating or quadratic form with possibly non-maximal Witt index. Moreover, in the characteristic…

We establish that every embedding of a Grassmann graph in a polar Grassmann graph can be reduced to an embedding in a Grassmann graph or to an embedding in the collinearity graph of a polar space. Also, we consider $3$-embeddings, i.e.…

Denote by $\mathbb G(k,n)$ the Grassmannian of linear subspaces of dimension $k$ in $\mathbb P^n$. We show that, if $\varphi:\mathbb G(l,n) \to \mathbb G(k,n)$ is a non constant morphism and $l \not=0,n-1$ then $l=k$ or $l=n-k-1$ and…

For an arbitrary field of any characteristic we give an explicit description, in terms of Pl\"ucker coordinates, of the projective linear space that cuts out the Lagrangian-Grassmannian variety $L(n,2n)$ of maximal isotropic subspaces in a…

Veldkamp polygons are certain graphs $\Gamma=(V,E)$ such that for each $v\in V$, $\Gamma_v$ is endowed with a symmetric anti-reflexive relation $\equiv_v$. These relations are all trivial if and only if $\Gamma$ is a thick generalized…

We study the category $\mathcal{F}(\mathfrak{S}_S,\mathcal{V})$ of functors from the category $\mathfrak{S}_S$, which is the category of elements of some presheaf $S$ on the category $\mathcal{V}^f$ of finite dimensional vector spaces, to…