On schemes evinced by generalized additive decompositions and their regularity

Abstract

We define and explicitly construct schemes evinced by generalized additive decompositions (GADs) of a given $d$-homogeneous polynomial $F$. We employ GADs to investigate the regularity of $0$-dimensional schemes apolar to $F$, focusing on those satisfying some minimality conditions. We show that irredundant schemes to $F$ need not be $d$-regular, unless they are evinced by special GADs of $F$. Instead, we prove that tangential decompositions of minimal length are always $d$-regular, as well as irredundant apolar schemes of length at most $2d+1$.