The second fundamental theorem conjecture for the determinant orbit closure
Let be the determinant function and let be the class variety associated with , namely the orbit closure of the determinant. Let be the variety and scheme defined by the ideal generated by the representation-theoretic modules in . Second fundamental theorem conjecture. One has
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 , but the determinant orbit closure is a central unresolved case in geometric complexity theory.
References
Primary source
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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