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We introduce and study properties of the Terracini locus of projective varieties X, which is the locus of finite sets \(S \subset X\) such that 2S fails to impose independent conditions to a linear system L. Terracini loci are relevant in the study of interpolation problems over double points in special position, but they also enter naturally in the study of special loci contained in secant varieties to projective varieties.
We find some criteria which exclude that a set S belongs to the Terracini locus. Furthermore, in the case where X is a Veronese variety, we bound the dimension of the Terracini locus and we determine examples in which the locus has codimension 1 in the symmetric product of X.
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Ballico, E., Chiantini, L. On the Terracini Locus of Projective Varieties. Milan J. Math. 89, 1–17 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00032-020-00324-5
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