The hyperdeterminantal generation conjecture for principal minors of symmetric matrices

Let ZnZ_n be the variety of principal minors of symmetric n×nn\times n matrices, and let HDHD denote the hyperdeterminantal module, namely the span of the (SL(2)×n)Sn\left(\operatorname{SL}(2)^{\times n}\right)\ltimes\mathfrak{S}_n-orbit of the 2×2×22\times2\times2 hyperdeterminant. Hyperdeterminantal generation conjecture. The prime ideal of ZnZ_n is generated in degree four by HDHD for all n3n\geq3. This conjecture seeks a uniform description of the defining equations of the principal-minor variety; the degree-four generators are known in the case n=4n=4, while the assertion for all n3n\geq3 remains open here.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Luke Oeding, “Set Theoretic Defining Equations of the Variety of Principal Minors of Symmetric Matrices”, arXiv:0809.4236 (2010).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.