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Alessandro Gimigliano

Publications and source records attributed to Alessandro Gimigliano.

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arXiv2026

Some remarks on degeneracy of tridimensional tensors

We study tridimensional tensors on the complex field from the point of view of hypermatrices, taking into consideration the problem of determining whether they are degenerate or not, concise or not, what is their essential format if they are non-coincise, and, in some cases, their tensor rank. We use a geometrical approach to these problems which, in part, goes back to Schläfli and consists in studying certain determinantal schemes associated to the hypermatrix.

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arXiv2025

Postulation for 2-superfat points in the plane

We study the postulation of 0-dimensional schemes given by unions of 2-superfat points in general position in the plane, i.e., the union of local schemes defined by the intersection of two distinct double lines. We prove that such schemes have good postulation, i.e., they have the expected Hilbert function. We also show the good postulation of such schemes when we add a general 3-fat point. Finally, we use these results to answer a peculiar kind of interpolation problem.

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arXiv2024

Superfat points and associated tensors

We consider 0-dimensional schemes supported at a single point in n-space that are m-symmetric, i.e. that intersect any smooth curve passing through the point with length m, and the ones among them that are maximal with respect to inclusion (called m-superfat points). We study properties of such schemes, in particular for n=2. We give a first application of the simplest such schemes, namely 2-superfat points in the plane, by studying varieties defined by them on Veronese and Segre-Veronese varieties and the (symmetric or partially symmetric) tensors they parameterize.

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arXiv2024

On the Jacobian Scheme of a plane curve

We study the Jacobian scheme of a plane algebraic curve at an ordinary singularity, characterizing it through a geometric property. We compute the Tjurina number for a family of curves at an ordinary singularity showing that it reaches the minimum possible value, using very elementary methods, essentially Gröbner basis. We give an algorithm that gives the analytic type of a double point using the algebraic version of the Mather-Yau Theorem.

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arXiv2022

Newton-Puiseux algorithm and triple points for planes curves

The paper is an introduction to the use of the classical Newton-Puiseux procedure, oriented to an algorithmic description of it. This procedure enables to get polynomial approximations for parameterizations of branches of an algebraic plane curve at a singular point. We look for an approach that can be easily grasped and almost self contained. We illustrate the use of the algorithm, first in a completely worked out example of a curve with a point of multiplicity 6, and secondly in the study of triple points on reduced plane curves.

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arXiv2022

Remarks on double points of plane curves

We study the relation between the type of a double point of a plane curve and the curvilinear 0-dimensional subschemes of the curve at the point. An Algorithm related to a classical procedure for the study of double points via osculating curves is described and proved. Eventually we look for a way to create examples of rational plane curves with given singularities $A_s$.

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arXiv2018

The Hitchhiker guide to: Secant Varieties and Tensor Decomposition

We consider here the problem, which is quite classical in Algebraic geometry, of studying the secant varieties of a projective variety $X$. The case we concentrate on is when $X$ is a Veronese variety, a Grassmannian or a Segre variety. Not only these varieties are among the ones that have been most classically studied, but a strong motivation in taking them into consideration is the fact that they parameterize, respectively, symmetric, skew-symmetric and general tensors, which are decomposable, and their secant varieties give a stratification of tensors via tensor rank. We collect here most of the known results and the open problems on this fascinating subject.

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arXiv2017

Singularities of plane rational curves via projections

We consider the parameterization ${\mathbf{f}}=(f_0,f_1,f_2)$ of a plane rational curve $C$ of degree $n$, and we want to study the singularities of $C$ via such parameterization. We do this by using the projection from the rational normal curve $C_n\subset \mathbb{P}^n$ to $C$ and its interplay with the secant varieties to $C_n$. In particular, we define via ${\mathbf{f}}$ certain 0-dimensional schemes $X_k\subset \mathbb{P}^k$, $2\leq k\leq (n-1)$, which encode all information on the singularities of multiplicity $\geq k$ of $C$ (e.g. using $X_2$ we can give a criterion to determine whether $C$ is a cuspidal curve or has only ordinary singularities). We give a series of algorithms which allow to get info about the singularities from such schemes.

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arXiv2015

On Parameterizations of plane rational curves and their syzygies

Let $C$ be a plane rational curve of degree $d$ and $p:\tilde C \rightarrow C$ its normalization. We are interested in the splitting type $(a,b)$ of $C$, where $\mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^1}(-a-d)\oplus \mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^1}(-b-d)$ gives the syzigies of the ideal $(f_0,f_1,f_2)\subset K[s,t]$, and $(f_0,f_1,f_2)$ is a parameterization of $C$. We want to describe in which cases $(a,b)=(k,d-k)$ ($2k\leq d)$, via a geometric description; namely we show that $(a,b)=(k,d-k)$ if and only if $C$ is the projection of a rational curve on a rational normal surface in $\mathbb{P}^{k+1}$.

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arXiv2014

The secant line variety to the varieties of reducible plane curves

Let $λ=[d_1,\dots,d_r]$ be a partition of $d$. Consider the variety $\mathbb{X}_{2,λ} \subset \mathbb{P}^N$, $N={d+2 \choose 2}-1$, parameterizing forms $F\in k[x_0,x_1,x_2]_d$ which are the product of $r\geq 2$ forms $F_1,\dots,F_r$, with deg$F_i = d_i$. We study the secant line variety $σ_2(\mathbb{X}_{2,λ})$, and we determine, for all $r$ and $d$, whether or not such a secant variety is defective. Defectivity occurs in infinitely many "unbalanced" cases.

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arXiv2013

On plane rational curves and the splitting of the tangent bundle

Given an immersion $ϕ: P^1 \to ¶^2$, we give new approaches to determining the splitting of the pullback of the cotangent bundle. We also give new bounds on the splitting type for immersions which factor as $ϕ: P^1 \cong D \subset X \to P^2$, where $X \to P^2$ is obtained by blowing up $r$ distinct points $p_i \in P^2$. As applications in the case that the points $p_i$ are generic, we give a complete determination of the splitting types for such immersions when $r \leq 7$. The case that $D^2=-1$ is of particular interest. For $r \leq8$ generic points, it is known that there are only finitely many inequivalent $ϕ$ with $D^2=-1$, and all of them have balanced splitting. However, for $r=9$ generic points we show that there are infinitely many inequivalent $ϕ$ with $D^2=-1$ having unbalanced splitting (only two such examples were known previously). We show that these new examples are related to a semi-adjoint formula which we conjecture accounts for all occurrences of unbalanced splitting when $D^2=-1$ in the case of $r=9$ generic points $p_i$. In the last section we apply such results to the study of the resolution of fat point schemes.

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arXiv2007

Betti numbers for fat point ideals in the plane: a geometric approach

We consider the open problem of determining the graded Betti numbers for fat point subschemes supported at general points of the projective plane. We relate this problem to the open geometric problem of determining the splitting type of the pullback of the cotangent bundle on the plane to the normalization of certain rational plane curves. We give a conjecture for the graded Betti numbers which would determine them in all degrees but one for every fat point subscheme supported at general points of the plane. We also prove our Betti number conjecture in a broad range of cases. An appendix discusses many more cases in which our conjecture has been verified computationally and provides a new and more efficient computational approach for computing graded Betti numbers in certain degrees. It also demonstrates how to derive explicit conjectural values for the Betti numbers and how to compute splitting types.

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arXiv2007

The role of the cotangent bundle in resolving ideals of fat points in the plane

We study the connection between the generation of a fat point scheme supported at general points in the plane and the behaviour of the cotangent bundle with respect to some rational curves particularly relevant for the scheme. We put forward two conjectures, giving examples and partial results in support of them.

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