The extreme-coefficient conjecture for ED polynomials of Segre products

Let X1P(V1)X_1\subset\mathbb{P}(V_1) and X2P(V2)X_2\subset\mathbb{P}(V_2) be projective varieties, let QiP(Vi)Q_i\subset\mathbb{P}(V_i) denote the isotropic quadrics, and let QQ be the corresponding isotropic quadric for the Segre product. Write the ED polynomial as

EDpoly(X1×X2),t(ε2)=i=0Nciε2i.\operatorname{EDpoly}_{(X_1\times X_2)^\vee,t}(\varepsilon^2)=\sum_{i=0}^{N}c_i\varepsilon^{2i}.

Assume that (X1×X2)Q(X_1\times X_2)\cap Q is reduced, and let ff and gg be square-free polynomials whose vanishing loci are

V(f)=(X1×X2),\mathcal{V}(f)=(X_1\times X_2)^\vee, V(g)=[(X1Q1)×X2][X1×(X2Q2)].\mathcal{V}(g)=[(X_1\cap Q_1)\times X_2]^\vee\cup[X_1\times(X_2\cap Q_2)]^\vee.

Extreme-coefficient conjecture. The extreme coefficients are

c0=f2g,cNR.c_0=f^2g,\qquad c_N\in\mathbb{R}.

The conjecture is motivated by computations in Macaulay2 and, if true, implies stabilization of the ED degree of X×P(V2)X\times\mathbb{P}(V_2) as the dimension of V2V_2 increases; its general validity remains open.

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Giorgio Ottaviani, Luca Sodomaco and Emuanuele Ventura, “Asymptotics of degrees and ED degrees of Segre products”, arXiv:2008.11670 (2021).

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