Bronowski conjecture for varieties with non-degenerate Gauss map

Let XPNX\subset\mathbb{P}^{N} be an irreducible and non-degenerate variety with non-degenerate Gauss map. A variety is hh-identifiable when a general point of its hh-secant variety lies on a unique (h1)(h-1)-plane spanned by hh points of XX, and a general (h1)(h-1)-tangential projection is the projection from the span of the tangent spaces at h1h-1 general points.

Non-degenerate Gauss-map conjecture. The variety XX is hh-identifiable if and only if a general (h1)(h-1)-tangential projection

τh1X:X\dasharrowXh1PNh1\tau_{h-1}^X:X\dasharrow X_{h-1}\subset\mathbb{P}^{N_{h-1}}

is birational.

This is proposed after the paper's counterexamples to the unrestricted Bronowski conjecture, since those examples have degenerate Gauss map. The source does not report a resolution of this strengthened statement.

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Alex Massarenti and Massimiliano Mella, “Bronowski's conjecture and the identifiability of projective varieties”, arXiv:2210.13524 (2024).

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