Pfaffian presentations of elliptic normal curves

Fisher, Tom

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

Pfaffian presentations of elliptic normal curves
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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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