Terracini Loci: Dimension and Description of Its Components

Edoardo Ballico ()
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Edoardo Ballico: Department of Mathematics, University of Trento, 38123 Povo, TN, Italy

Mathematics, 2023, vol. 11, issue 22, 1-14

Abstract: We study the Terracini loci of an irreducible variety X embedded in a projective space: non-emptiness, dimensions and the geometry of their maximal dimension’s irreducible components. These loci were studied because they describe where the differential of an important geometric map drops rank. Our best results are if X is either a Veronese embedding of a projective space of arbitrary dimension (the set-up for the additive decomposition of homogeneous polynomials) or a Segre–Veronese embedding of a multiprojective space (the set-up for partially symmetric tensors). For an arbitrary X , we give several examples in which all Terracini loci are empty, several criteria for non-emptiness and examples with the maximal defect possible a priori of an element of a minimal Terracini locus. We raise a few open questions.

Keywords: Terracini loci; minimal Terracini loci; secant variety; partially symmetric tensor rank; Segre–Veronese variety; Veronese variety (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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