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On Strassen's rank additivity for small three-way tensors

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posted on 2019-08-06, 08:31 authored by Jarosław Buczyński, Elisa Postinghel, Filip Rupniewski
We address the problem of the additivity of the tensor rank. That is, for two independent tensors we study if the rank of their direct sum is equal to the sum of their individual ranks. A positive answer to this problem was previously known as Strassen's conjecture until recent counterexamples were proposed by Shitov. The latter are not very explicit, and they are only known to exist asymptotically for very large tensor spaces. In this article we prove that for some small three-way tensors the additivity holds. For instance, if the rank of one of the tensors is at most 6, then the additivity holds. Or, if one of the tensors lives in ${\mathbb C}^k\otimes {\mathbb C}^3\otimes {\mathbb C}^3$ for any $k$, then the additivity also holds. More generally, if one of the tensors is concise and its rank is at most 2 more than the dimension of one of the linear spaces, then additivity holds. In addition we also treat some cases of the additivity of the border rank of such tensors. In particular, we show that the additivity of the border rank holds if the direct sum tensor is contained in ${\mathbb C}^4\otimes {\mathbb C}^4\otimes {\mathbb C}^4$. Some of our results are valid over an arbitrary base field.


Funding

Homing Plus programme of Foundation for Polish Science, cofinanced from European Union, Regional Development Fund

Grant 346300 for IMPAN from the Simons Foundation and the Polish MNiSW fund

Polish National Science Center project "Algebraic Geometry: Varieties and Structures", 2013/08/A/ST1/00804, the scholarship "START" of the Foundation for Polish Science and a scholarship of Polish Ministry of Science

Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO)

EPSRC grant no. EP/S004130/1

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School

  • Science

Department

  • Mathematical Sciences

Published in

SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications

Volume

41

Issue

1

Pages

106-133

Publisher

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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© Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

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First Published in SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications in 41 (1), published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Copyright © by SIAM. Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited.

Acceptance date

2019-07-17

Publication date

2020-01-14

Copyright date

2020

ISSN

0895-4798

eISSN

1095-7162

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Elisa Postinghel

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