Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9518156 | Advances in Mathematics | 2005 | 44 Pages |
Abstract
We define and study a numerical invariant of an algebraic group action which we call the canonical dimension. We then apply the resulting theory to the problem of computing the minimal number of parameters required to define a generic hypersurface of degree d in Pn-1.
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Authors
G. Berhuy, Z. Reichstein,