Set Evincing the Ranks with Respect to an Embedded Variety (Symmetric Tensor Rank and Tensor Rank

Abstract

Let X ⊂ P r be an integral and non-degenerate variety. We study when a finite set S ⊂ X evinces the X-rank of the general point of the linear span of S. We give a criterion when X is the order d Veronese embedding X n , d of P n and | S | ≤ ( n + ⌊ d / 2 ⌋ n ) . For the tensor rank, we describe the cases with | S | ≤ 3 . For X n , d , we raise some questions of the maximum rank for d ≫ 0 (for a fixed n) and for n ≫ 0 (for a fixed d).