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In this lecture we will introduce a large and important class of varieties, those whose equations take the form of the minors of a matrix. We will see that many of the varieties we have looked at so far—Veronese varieties, Segre varieties, rational normal scrolls, for example — are determinantal.
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Harris, J. (1992). Determinantal Varieties. In: Algebraic Geometry. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 133. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2189-8_9
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