The non-homaloidality conjecture for the generic Hankel determinant

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Let RR be the polynomial ring containing the entries of the generic m×mm\times m Hankel matrix Hm\mathcal{H}_m. Hankel non-homaloidality conjecture. The determinant of Hm\mathcal{H}_m is not homaloidal.

A homogeneous polynomial is homaloidal when its polar, or gradient, rational map is birational onto its image; thus the conjecture predicts that the Hankel determinant does not have this property. The source explains that an affirmative answer to the preceding conjecture would imply this claim via a stated criterion, and that the case m=3m=3 is known affirmatively, while the general case is left open.

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Maral Mostafazadehfard and Aron Simis, “Homaloidal determinants”, arXiv:1407.8089 (2014).

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