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Contents vii<br />

§5.4. The polynomial Waring problem 125<br />

§5.5. Dimensions of secant varieties of Segre Varieties 127<br />

§5.6. Ideas of proofs of dimensions of secant varieties of triple Segre<br />

products 130<br />

§5.7. BRPP <strong>and</strong> conjectures of Strassen <strong>and</strong> Comon 132<br />

Chapter 6. Exploiting symmetry: Representation theory for spaces of<br />

tensors 137<br />

§6.1. Schur’s lemma 138<br />

§6.2. Finite groups 139<br />

§6.3. Representations of the permutation group Sd 140<br />

§6.4. Decomposing V ⊗d as a GL(V ) module with the aid of Sd 144<br />

§6.5. Decomposing S d (A1⊗ · · · ⊗ An) as a G = GL(A1) × · · · ×<br />

GL(An)-module 149<br />

§6.6. Characters 151<br />

§6.7. The Littlewood-Richardson rule 153<br />

§6.8. Weights <strong>and</strong> weight spaces: a generalization of eigenvalues<br />

<strong>and</strong> eigenspaces 157<br />

§6.9. Homogeneous varieties 164<br />

§6.10. Ideals of homogeneous varieties 167<br />

§6.11. Symmetric functions 170<br />

Chapter 7. Tests for border rank: Equations for secant varieties 173<br />

§7.1. Subspace varieties <strong>and</strong> multi-linear rank 174<br />

§7.2. Additional auxiliary varieties 177<br />

§7.3. Flattenings 179<br />

§7.4. Inheritance 184<br />

§7.5. Prolongation <strong>and</strong> multi-prolongation 186<br />

§7.6. Strassen’s equations, applications <strong>and</strong> generalizations 192<br />

§7.7. Equations for σ4(Seg(PA × PB × PC)) 198<br />

§7.8. Young flattenings 201<br />

Chapter 8. Additional varieties useful for spaces of tensors 207<br />

§8.1. Tangential varieties 208<br />

§8.2. Dual varieties 211<br />

§8.3. The Pascal determinant 214<br />

§8.4. Differential invariants of projective varieties 215<br />

§8.5. Stratifications of PV ∗ via dual varieties 219

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