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This paper explores the dimensions of higher secant varieties to Segre-Veronese varieties. The main goal of this paper is to introduce two different inductive techniques. These techniques enable one to reduce the computation of the dimension of the secant variety in a high-dimensional case to the computation of the dimensions of secant varieties in low-dimensional cases. As an application of these inductive approaches, we will prove non-defectivity of secant varieties of certain two-factor Segre-Veronese varieties. We also use these methods to give a complete classification of defective sth Segre–Veronese varieties for small s. In the final section, we propose a conjecture about defective two-factor Segre–Veronese varieties.
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The first author is partly supported by NSF grant DMS-0901816. The second author is partially supported by Italian MIUR and is member of GNSAGA-INDAM.
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Abo, H., Brambilla, M.C. On the dimensions of secant varieties of Segre-Veronese varieties. Annali di Matematica 192, 61–92 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10231-011-0212-3
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