Tangency flattening conjecture for Hilbert-scheme tangent spaces

Let C[x1,,xd]R\mathbb{C}[x_1,\dots,x_d]\twoheadrightarrow R be a surjection to an nn-dimensional algebra RR, let [R][R] be the corresponding point of HilbnCd\operatorname{Hilb}_n\mathbb{C}^d, and let TT be the structure tensor of RR.

\rank\tangC(T)n(n1)(n2)=dndimT[R]HilbnCd.\rank\tang^C(T) - n(n-1)(n-2) = dn - \dim\operatorname{T}_{[R]}\operatorname{Hilb}_n\mathbb{C}^d.

Tangency flattening conjecture. The displayed equality holds.

This conjecture would identify the excess rank of the tangency flattening with the excess codimension of the tangent space to the Hilbert scheme. The source presents it as a future direction; no resolution is supplied.

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Matěj Doležálek and Mateusz Michałek, “Nonlinear methods for tensors: determinantal equations for secant varieties beyond cactus”, arXiv:2602.12762 (2026).

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