Conjecture on the real rank boundary of ternary quartics
Let be a ternary quartic, let be its middle catalecticant, and let and denote respectively the discriminant and the Blekherman discriminant. Let be the algebraic real rank boundary in . Quartic real rank boundary conjecture. The boundary is a reducible hypersurface of degree
with three irreducible components, and algebraically
This conjecture identifies the three expected boundary components: the catalecticant determinant, the discriminant, and the Blekherman discriminant. The source gives no resolution status.
References
Primary source
Mateusz Michałek, Hyunsuk Moon, Bernd Sturmfels and Emanuele Ventura, “Real Rank Geometry of Ternary Forms”, arXiv:1601.06574 (2016).
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