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Tangential varieties of Segre-Veronese surfaces are never defective

arXiv:1805.11964 · doi:10.1007/s13163-019-00305-2

Abstract

We compute the dimensions of all the secant varieties to the tangential varieties of all Segre-Veronese surfaces. We exploit the typical approach of computing the Hilbert function of special 0-dimensional schemes on projective plane by using a new degeneration technique.

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