Visu Makam

On non-commutative rank and tensor rank

Abstract We study the relationship between the commutative and the non-commutative rank of a linear matrix. We give examples that show that the ratio of the two ranks comes arbitrarily close to 2. Such examples can be used for giving lower bounds for the border rank of a given tensor. Landsberg used such techniques to give non-trivial equations for the tensors of border rank at most in if m is even. He also gave such equations for tensors of border rank at most in if m is odd. Using concavity of tensor blow-ups we show non-trivial equations for tensors of border rank in for odd m for any field of characteristic 0. We also give another proof of the regularity lemma by Ivanyos, Qiao and Subrahmanyam.

Explicit tensors of border rank at least 2d−2 in in arbitrary characteristic

ABSTRACT For tensors in , Landsberg provides non-trivial equations for tensors of border rank 2d−3 for d even and 2d−5 for d odd in Landsberg [Non-triviality of equations and explicit tensors in of border rank at least 2m−2. J Pure Appl Algebra. 2015;219(8):3677–3684]. In Derksen and Makam [On non-commutative rank and tensor rank, Linear Multilinear Algebra, published online 2017], we observe that Landsbergs method can be interpreted in the language of tensor blow-ups of matrix spaces, and using concavity of blow-ups, we improve the case for odd d from 2d−5 to 2d−4. The purpose of this paper is to show that the aforementioned results extend to tensors in for any field K.