Pfaffian presentations of elliptic normal curves
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We investigate certain alternating matrices of linear forms whose Pfaffians generate the homogeneous ideal of an elliptic normal curve, or one of its higher secant varieties.References
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Additional Information
- Tom Fisher
- Affiliation: Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WB, United Kingdom
- MR Author ID: 678544
- Email: T.A.Fisher@dpmms.cam.ac.uk
- Received by editor(s): June 1, 2006
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: March 17, 2008
- Published electronically: December 11, 2009
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American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 362 (2010), 2525-2540
- MSC (2010): Primary 14H52; Secondary 14M12
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-09-04876-4
- MathSciNet review: 2584609