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Partial stratification of secant varieties of Veronese varieties via curvilinear subschemes

arXiv:1010.3546

Abstract

We give a partial "quasi-stratification" of the secant varieties of the order Veronese variety of . It covers the set of all points lying on the linear span of curvilinear subschemes of , but two "quasi-strata" may overlap. For low border rank two different "quasi-strata" are disjoint and we compute the symmetric rank of their elements. Our tool is the Hilbert schemes of curvilinear subschemes of Veronese varieties. To get a stratification we attach to each the minimal label of a quasi-stratum containing it.

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