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The ideal of the trifocal variety
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by Chris Aholt and Luke Oeding;
Math. Comp. 83 (2014), 2553-2574
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-2014-02842-1
Published electronically: April 17, 2014

Abstract:

Techniques from representation theory, symbolic computational algebra, and numerical algebraic geometry are used to find the minimal generators of the ideal of the trifocal variety. An effective test for determining whether a given tensor is a trifocal tensor is also given.
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Bibliographic Information
  • Chris Aholt
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195
  • Email: aholtc@uw.edu
  • Luke Oeding
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720
  • Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, 336 Parker Hall, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849
  • Email: oeding@auburn.edu
  • Received by editor(s): June 22, 2012
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: January 27, 2013
  • Published electronically: April 17, 2014
  • Additional Notes: The second author was partially supported by NSF RTG Award # DMS-0943745
  • © Copyright 2014 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.
  • Journal: Math. Comp. 83 (2014), 2553-2574
  • MSC (2010): Primary 13Pxx, 14Qxx; Secondary 15A69, 15A72, 68T45
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-2014-02842-1
  • MathSciNet review: 3223346