Polynomial relations among principal minors of a 4x4-matrix

نویسندگان

  • Shaowei Lin
  • Bernd Sturmfels
چکیده

The image of the principal minor map for n×n-matrices is shown to be closed. In the 19th century, Nansen and Muir studied the implicitization problem of finding all relations among principal minors when n = 4. We complete their partial results by constructing explicit polynomials of degree 12 that scheme-theoretically define this affine variety and also its projective closure in P15. The latter is the main component in the singular locus of the 2×2×2×2-hyperdeterminant.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/0812.0601  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008