Conjecture on rank comparison over a field and its algebraic closure

Let KK be a field, let V=V1××VdV=V_1\times\dots\times V_d, and let P:VKP:V\to K be a multilinear polynomial of degree dd. Write rK(P)r_K(P) for the Schmidt rank of PP, and let Kˉ\bar K be the algebraic closure of KK. For any d2d\geq 2, rank-comparison conjecture. there exists κd>0\kappa_d>0 such that

rK(P)κdrKˉ(P).r_K(P)\leq\kappa_d r_{\bar K}(P).

The claim is known for d=2d=2, with κ2=1/2\kappa_2=1/2, and for d=3d=3 because Schmidt rank equals slice rank and the required comparison follows from the cited results. The general statement remains open.

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David Kazhdan and Tamar Ziegler, “Applications of Algebraic Combinatorics to Algebraic Geometry”, arXiv:2005.12542 (2021).

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