Osculating spaces to secant varieties
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چکیده
We generalize the classical Terracini’s Lemma to higher order osculating spaces to secant varieties. As an application, we address with the so-called Horace method the case of the d-Veronese embedding of the projective 3-space. A.M.S. Math. Subject Classification (2000): 14N05.
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