Euclidean distance degree for symmetric diagonal-zero rank-two varieties

Let L2SSymn(C)\mathcal{L}_2^S\subset\operatorname{Sym}_n(\mathbb{C}) be the variety of symmetric matrices of rank at most 22 with diagonal zero pattern S={(1,1),,(s,s)}S=\{(1,1),\ldots,(s,s)\}, where s[4]s\in[4]. Symmetric diagonal-zero ED-degree conjecture.

EDdegree(L2S)={3(n1)2if s=1,9(n2)2if s=2,27(n3)+4if s=3,81(n4)+28if s=4.\operatorname{EDdegree}(\mathcal{L}_2^S)= \begin{cases} 3(n-1)-2 & \text{if }s=1,\\ 9(n-2)-2 & \text{if }s=2,\\ 27(n-3)+4 & \text{if }s=3,\\ 81(n-4)+28 & \text{if }s=4. \end{cases}

The formulas agree with the reported computations for the symmetric examples in the table. Their validity beyond those computations is not established in the supplied text.

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Kaie Kubjas, Luca Sodomaco and Elias Tsigaridas, “Exact solutions in low-rank approximation with zeros”, arXiv:2010.15636 (2022).

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