Conjecture on defective secant varieties of Segre-Veronese varieties embedded by O(1,2)\mathcal{O}(1,2)

Let Xm,nX_{m,n} be the Segre-Veronese variety Pm,n{\mathbb P}^{m,n} embedded by the morphism given by O(1,2)\mathcal{O}(1,2). For a positive integer ss, let σs(Xm,n)\sigma_s(X_{m,n}) denote the ss-th secant variety of Xm,nX_{m,n}. The pair (m,n;1,2)(m,n;1,2) is called unbalanced when the unbalancedness condition used in case (a) holds.

The defective secant-variety conjecture. The variety σs(Xm,n)\sigma_s(X_{m,n}) is defective if and only if (m,n,s)(m,n,s) falls into one of the following cases:

  • (m,n;1,2)(m,n;1,2) is unbalanced and
(n+22)n<s<min{m+1,(n+22)};{n+2 \choose 2}-n < s < \min\left\{m+1,{n+2 \choose 2}\right\};
  • (m,n,s)=(2,2k+1,3k+2)(m,n,s)=(2,2k+1,3k+2) with k1k\geq 1;
  • (m,n,s)=(4,3,6)(m,n,s)=(4,3,6).

The conjecture proposes a complete classification of defective secant varieties for this Segre-Veronese embedding; the paper's experiments and the explicitly established defectivity of σ6(X4,3)\sigma_6(X_{4,3}) motivate it, while no resolution is supplied in the given source.

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Hirotachi Abo and Maria Chiara Brambilla, “Secant varieties of Segre-Veronese varieties P^m x P^n embedded by O(1,2)”, arXiv:0809.4837 (2012).

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