Partial stratification of secant varieties of Veronese varieties via curvilinear subschemes

E. Ballico, A. Bernardi

We give a partial "quasi-stratification" of the secant varieties of the order $d$ Veronese variety $X_{m,d}$ of ${\mathbb{P}}^m$. It covers the set ${\sigma }_t(X_{m,d}{)}^{†}$ of all p…