Divisibility of the Hurwitz form by the eigendiscriminant
Divisibility of the Hurwitz form by the eigendiscriminant
Let be a cubic form in four variables, and let its eigenscheme determine a -plane in the relevant Grassmannian. The eigenscheme is the scheme defined by the equations for ; the eigendiscriminant is the homogeneous polynomial that vanishes when this eigenscheme is nonreduced or positive dimensional. The Hurwitz form is the polynomial on vanishing on -planes that intersect the Veronese tangentially.
Divisibility conjecture. Restricted to the -planes coming from eigenschemes, the eigendiscriminant divides the Hurwitz form.
The conjecture compares two discriminantal constructions associated with the Veronese embedding: the eigendiscriminant detects degeneracy of eigenschemes, while the Hurwitz form detects tangential intersection. The source presents this divisibility as an interesting comparison and does not provide evidence of a resolution.
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Türkü Özlüm Celik, Francesco Galuppi, Avinash Kulkarni and Miruna-Stefana Sorea, “On the eigenpoints of cubic surfaces”, arXiv:1909.06261 (2020).
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