Eisenbud–Koh–Stillman secant-variety determinantal conjecture for embedded curves

Let XX be a smooth curve and let LL be a very ample line bundle defining an embedding of XX. For each integer kk, let SeckXSec^kX denote the kk-th secant variety. Eisenbud–Koh–Stillman conjecture. There is a bound on the degree of LL such that SeckXSec^kX is ideal theoretically defined by the (k+2)×(k+2)(k+2)\times(k+2) minors of a matrix of linear forms. The conjecture predicts determinantal equations for secant varieties of sufficiently positive embedded curves; the cited result of M. S. Ravi gives a set-theoretic version under the bound degL4g+2k+3\deg L\geq 4g+2k+3, while the ideal-theoretic assertion remains unresolved in the source.

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Peter Vermeire, “Secant Varieties and Birational Geometry”, arXiv:math/9911078 (2001).

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