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arxiv: 0712.2527 · v1 · submitted 2007-12-15 · 🧮 math.AG

An invariant regarding Waring's problem for cubic polynomials

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We compute the equation of the 7-secant variety to the Veronese variety (P^4,O(3)), its degree is 15. This is the last missing invariant in the Alexander-Hirschowitz classification. It gives the condition to express a homogeneous cubic polynomial in 5 variables as the sum of 7 cubes (Waring problem). The interesting side in the construction is that it comes from the determinant of a matrix of order 45 with linear entries, which is a cube. The same technique allows to express the classical Aronhold invariantof plane cubics as a pfaffian.

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