Conjecture on secant varieties of Segre products with completely decomposable forms

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Let Split⁡d(Pn)\operatorname{Split}_d(\mathbb P^n) be the variety of degree-dd completely decomposable forms, let Seg⁡(Pm×Split⁡d(Pn))\operatorname{Seg}(\mathbb P^m\times\operatorname{Split}_d(\mathbb P^n)) be their Segre product, and let σs\sigma_s denote its ss-th secant variety. The secant variety is nondefective when it has the expected dimension

min⁡{s(m+dn+1),(m+1)(n+dd)}−1.\min\left\{s(m+dn+1),(m+1)\binom{n+d}{d}\right\}-1.

Segre–split secant conjecture. If m≥1m\geq 1, then σs(Seg⁡(Pm×Split⁡d(Pn))\sigma_s(\operatorname{Seg}(\mathbb P^m\times\operatorname{Split}_d(\mathbb P^n)) is nondefective for all cases except those outlined in the known unbalanced family of Proposition }. The conjecture is based on Macaulay2 computations and would identify all defective cases in this family beyond the stated unbalanced exception.

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Douglas A. Torrance, “Nondefective secant varieties of varieties of completely decomposable forms”, arXiv:1306.1293 (2013).

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