Landsberg–Weyman conjecture on generators of tangential ideals of Segre varieties

Let XX be a Segre variety, and let I(τ(X))I(\tau(X)) denote the homogeneous ideal of its tangential variety. The relevant Schur-module factors are expressed using exterior powers k\bigwedge^k and Schur functors SλS_{\lambda}. Landsberg–Weyman conjecture. The ideal I(τ(X))I(\tau(X)) is generated by the submodules of quadrics which have at least four 2\bigwedge^{2} factors, the cubics with four S(2,1)S_{(2,1)} factors and all other factors S(3)S_{(3)}, the cubics with at least one 3\bigwedge^3 factor, and the quartics with three S(2,2)S_{(2,2)} factors and all other factors S(4)S_{(4)}. This gives an explicit representation-theoretic description of the generators of the ideal of the tangential variety in the Segre case; the surrounding paper presents it as the next goal after determining the coordinate ring of tangential varieties, and the supplied text gives no resolution status.

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Primary source

Luke Oeding and Claudiu Raicu, “Tangential varieties of Segre-Veronese varieties”, arXiv:1111.6202 (2013).

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2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2009–2011). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:0911.5276.

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