# Secant varieties to osculating varieties of Veronese embeddings of $P^n$.

Bernardi, Alessandra ; Catalisano, Maria Virginia ; Gimigliano, Alessandro ; Idà, Monica (2008) Secant varieties to osculating varieties of Veronese embeddings of $P^n$. [Preprint]
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## Abstract

A well known theorem by Alexander-Hirschowitz states that all the higher secant varieties of $V_{n,d}$ (the $d$-uple embedding of $\PP n$) have the expected dimension, with few known exceptions. We study here the same problem for $T_{n,d}$, the tangential variety to $V_{n,d}$, and prove a conjecture, which is the analogous of Alexander-Hirschowitz theorem, for $n\leq 9$. Moreover. we prove that it holds for any $n,d$ if it holds for $d=3$. Then we generalize to the case of $O_{k,n,d}$, the $k$-osculating variety to $V_{n,d}$, proving, for $n=2$, a conjecture that relates the defectivity of $\sigma_s(O_{k,n,d})$ to the Hilbert function of certain sets of fat points in $\PP n$.

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Bernardi, Alessandra
Catalisano, Maria Virginia
Gimigliano, Alessandro
Idà, Monica
Keywords
Varietà delle Secanti, Varietà di Veronese, Varietà Osculanti, Varietà Tangenziali, Lemma d'Horace Differenziale
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15 Jul 2008
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16 May 2011 12:08
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