arXiv · 2206.08586
On the rank index of some quadratic varieties
Abstract
Regarding the generating structure of the homogeneous ideal of a projective variety $X \subset \mathbb{P}^r$, we define the rank index of $X$ to be the smallest integer $k$ such that $I(X)$ can be generated by quadratic polynomials of rank at most $k$. Recently it is shown that every Veronese embedding has rank index $3$ if the base field has characteristic $\ne 2, 3$. In this paper, we introduce some basic ways of how to calculate the rank index and find its values when $X$ is some other classical projective varieties such as rational normal scrolls, del Pezzo varieties, Segre varieties and the Pl\"{u}cker embedding of the Grassmannian of lines.
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Hyunsuk Moon, Euisung Park. 2022-06-17. On the rank index of some quadratic varieties. https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08586
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