Mathematics – Algebraic Geometry
Scientific paper
2006-05-12
Mathematics
Algebraic Geometry
23 pages; several nice pictures; corrected a problem with VoronoiPartition; filled in a gap in the proof of Theorem 4.2
Scientific paper
Tropical geometry yields good lower bounds, in terms of certain combinatorial-polyhedral optimisation problems, on the dimensions of secant varieties. In particular, it gives an attractive pictorial proof of the theorem of Hirschowitz that all Veronese embeddings of the projective plane except for the quadratic one and the quartic one are non-defective; this proof might be generalisable to cover all Veronese embeddings, whose secant dimensions are known from the ground-breaking but difficult work of Alexander and Hirschowitz. Also, the non-defectiveness of certain Segre embeddings is proved, which cannot be proved with the rook covering argument already known in the literature. Short self-contained introductions to secant varieties and the required tropical geometry are included.
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