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On the Dimension of the Locus of Determinantal Hypersurfaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Zinovy Reichstein  and
Angelo Vistoli
Zinovy Reichstein
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2. e-mail: reichst@math.ubc.ca
Angelo Vistoli
Affiliation:
Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy. e-mail: angelo.vistoli@gmail.com
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Abstract

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The characteristic polynomial ${{P}_{A}}({{x}_{0}},...,{{x}_{r}})$ of an $r$-tuple $A\,:=({{A}_{1}},...,{{A}_{r}})$ of $n\times n$-matrices is defined as

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$${{P}_{A}}({{x}_{0}},...,{{x}_{r}}):=\det ({{x}_{0}}I+{{x}_{1}}{{A}_{1}}+\ldots +{{x}_{r}}{{A}_{r}}).$$

We show that if $r\,\,3$ and $A\,:=({{A}_{1}},...,{{A}_{r}})$ is an $r$-tuple of $n\times n$-matrices in general position, then up to conjugacy, there are only finitely many $r$-tuples $A'\,:=(A_{1}^{'},...,A_{r}^{'})$ such that ${{p}_{A}}={{p}_{A'}}$. Equivalently, the locus of determinantal hypersurfaces of degree $n$ in ${{\text{P}}^{r}}$ is irreducible of dimension $(r-1){{n}^{2}}+1$.

Keywords

14M1215A2205A10determinantal hypersurfacematrix invariantq-binomial cofficient
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 60 , Issue 3 , 01 September 2017 , pp. 613 - 630
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2017

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