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The study of the rank of tensors has a natural geometric counterpart in the study of secant varieties. Secant varieties or, more generally, joins are a relevant object for several researches on the properties of projective varieties.
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Bocci, C., Chiantini, L. (2019). Secant Varieties. In: An Introduction to Algebraic Statistics with Tensors. UNITEXT(), vol 118. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24624-2_12
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