The determinantal generation conjecture for secant varieties

Let XPrX \subset \mathbb{P}^r be a projective scheme embedded by the complete linear series of a sufficiently ample line bundle, and let Seck(X)\operatorname{Sec}^k(X) denote the Zariski closure of the union of the linear spaces spanned by collections of k+1k+1 points on XX, where kk is a positive integer. Determinantal generation conjecture. The homogeneous ideal of Seck(X)\operatorname{Sec}^k(X) is generated by the (k+2)(k+2)-minors of a 11-generic matrix of linear forms. This is proposed as a natural generalization of the theorem that sufficiently ample line bundles give determinantal presentations; its validity for arbitrary projective schemes and all positive integers kk remains open.

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Jessica Sidman and Gregory G. Smith, “Linear determinantal equations for all projective schemes”, arXiv:0910.2424 (2011).

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