Pfaffian presentations of elliptic normal curves

Fisher, Tom

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-09-04876-4

Pfaffian presentations of elliptic normal curves

Author: Tom Fisher
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
Published electronically: December 11, 2009
MathSciNet review: 2584609
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Abstract: 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.

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