The second fundamental theorem conjecture for the determinant orbit closure

Let vv be the determinant function and let ΔV[v]\Delta_V[v] be the class variety associated with NCNC, namely the orbit closure of the determinant. Let X(Piv)X(Pi_v) be the variety and scheme defined by the ideal generated by the representation-theoretic modules in PivPi_v. Second fundamental theorem conjecture. One has

X(Piv)=ΔV[v]X(Pi_v)=\Delta_V[v]

as a variety, and more strongly, as a scheme. This asks whether the ideal of the determinant orbit closure is generated by these representation-theoretic equations; the analogous assertion is known for homogeneous varieties such as G/PG/P, but the determinant orbit closure is a central unresolved case in geometric complexity theory.

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Ketan D Mulmuley and Milind Sohoni, “Geometric Complexity Theory II: Towards explicit obstructions for embeddings among class varieties”, arXiv:cs/0612134 (2006).

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