Dimension conjecture for secant varieties of cubic Gaussian moment varieties

Let Gn,3\mathcal{G}_{n,3} be the Gaussian moment variety of order 33 in nn variables, and let Seck(Gn,3)\operatorname{Sec}_k(\mathcal{G}_{n,3}) denote its kk-th secant variety. For KK defined so that K+1K+1 is the smallest integer for which the displayed expression exceeds the ambient dimension (n+33)1\binom{n+3}{3}-1, dimension conjecture for cubic Gaussian moment varieties. For any n2n\geq 2 and k1k\geq 1, with k=1,2,,Kk=1,2,\ldots,K, one has

dimSeck(Gn,3)=16k[k23(n+4)k+3n(n+6)+23](n+2).\dim\operatorname{Sec}_k(\mathcal{G}_{n,3})=\frac{1}{6}k\left[k^2-3(n+4)k+3n(n+6)+23\right]-(n+2).

This conjecture is based on computations of higher secant varieties and extends the proven low-dimensional results; its general validity remains open.

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Carlos Améndola, Kristian Ranestad and Bernd Sturmfels, “Algebraic Identifiability of Gaussian Mixtures”, arXiv:1612.01129 (2017).

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