Characteristic polynomial fiber-dimension conjecture for partially symmetric tensors

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Let n≥2n \geq 2 and d≥3d \geq 3, with (n,d)∉(2,3),(3,3),(2,4)(n,d) \notin\\{(2,3),(3,3),(2,4)\\}. Let Φ\Phi be the characteristic polynomial map on partially symmetric tensors

Φ:Cn+1⊗Sd−1Cn+1⟶C[λ]D(n,d)mon,T⟼φT(λ).\Phi:\mathbb{C}^{n+1}\otimes S^{d-1}\mathbb{C}^{n+1}\longrightarrow \mathbb{C}[\lambda]^{\mathit{mon}}_{D(n,d)},\qquad T\longmapsto \varphi_T(\lambda).

Characteristic polynomial fiber-dimension conjecture. The generic fiber of Φ\Phi is equidimensional of dimension nn.

The conjecture refines an earlier conjecture that the generic fiber is finite, which is false because a subgroup HH preserving the characteristic polynomial acts on the tensor space. The excluded cases are among those where Φ\Phi is dominant, and the dimension nn is known to be a lower bound for the generic fiber dimension; the asserted equidimensionality remains the proposed statement.

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Francesco Galuppi, Fulvio Gesmundo, Ettore Teixeira Turatti and Lorenzo Venturello, “Characteristic polynomials and eigenvalues of tensors”, arXiv:2308.10957 (2023).

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