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Secant dimensions of low-dimensional homogeneous varieties

Karin Baur·Jan Draisma
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We completely describe the higher secant dimensions of all connected homogeneous projective varieties of dimension at most 3, in all possible equivariant embeddings. In particular, we calculate these dimensions for all Segre-Veronese embeddings of P^1 * P^1, P^1 * P^1 * P^1, and P^2 * P^1, as well as for the variety F of incident point-line pairs in P^2. For P^2 * P^1 and F the results are new, while the proofs for the other two varieties are more compact than existing proofs. Our main tool is the second author's tropical approach to secant dimensions.

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Karin Baur, Jan Draisma. 2007-07-11. Secant dimensions of low-dimensional homogeneous varieties. https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1605

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