Eisenbud–Koh–Stillman conjecture on determinantal presentations of secant varieties of curves

Let CC be a smooth projective curve of genus gg. For line bundles AA and BB on CC of sufficiently large degree with respect to gg and kk, set L=ABL=A\otimes B. The kk-th secant variety Σk(C,L)\Sigma_k(C,L) is the closure of the union of the kk-planes spanned by k+1k+1 points of the image of CC under LL. The catalecticant matrix Cat(A,B)\operatorname{Cat}(A,B) is the matrix of the multiplication map H0(C,A)H0(C,B)H0(C,L)H^0(C,A)\otimes H^0(C,B)\to H^0(C,L). Eisenbud–Koh–Stillman conjecture. The ideal I(Σk(C,L))I(\Sigma_k(C,L)) is generated by the (k+2)×(k+2)(k+2)\times(k+2)-minors of Cat(A,B)\operatorname{Cat}(A,B); in particular, I(Σk(C,L))I(\Sigma_k(C,L)) is determinantally presented when degL\deg L is sufficiently large. This conjecture was subsequently verified set-theoretically by Ravi and scheme-theoretically by Ginensky, so the asserted generation statement is solved.

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Daniele Agostini and Jinhyung Park, “Determinantal ideals of secant varieties”, arXiv:2510.01895 (2025).

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3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2010–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2510.01908, arXiv:1007.0192.

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