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Improved unirationality for GL-varieties

Arthur Bik·Jan Draisma·Rob Eggermont·Andrew Snowden
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A $\mathbf{GL}$-variety is a typically infinite dimensional variety equipped with a suitable action of the infinite general linear group $\mathbf{GL}$. In earlier work, we established the unirationality theorem: an irreducible $\mathbf{GL}$-variety admits a dominant map from a particularly simple $\mathbf{GL}$-variety, namely, the product of an irreducible finite-dimensional variety with trivial $\mathbf{GL}$-action and an infinite-dimensional affine space on which $\mathbf{GL}$ acts linearly. The main result of this paper states that this map can in fact be constructed to be surjective rather than merely dominant. An immediate application is that secant varieties to varieties of tensors, which are typically constructed as image closures of certain $\mathbf{GL}$-equivariant maps, are in fact also images of (more complicated) $\mathbf{GL}$-equivariant maps. We derive several consequences of this improved unirationality theorem.

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Arthur Bik, Jan Draisma, Rob Eggermont, Andrew Snowden. 2026-06-02. Improved unirationality for GL-varieties. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03683

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