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Izv. RAN. Ser. Mat., 2012 Volume 76, Issue 5, Pages 29–56 (Mi im6990)

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The discriminant locus of a system of $n$ Laurent polynomials in $n$ variables

I. A. Antipovaa, A. K. Tsikhb

a Institute of Space and Information Technologies, Siberian Federal University
b Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Federal University

Abstract: We consider a system of $n$ algebraic equations in $n$ variables, where the exponents of the monomials in each equation are fixed while all the coefficients vary. The discriminant locus of such a system is the closure of the set of all coefficients for which the system has multiple roots with non-zero coordinates. For dehomogenized discriminant loci, we give parametrizations of those irreducible components that depend on the coefficients of all the equations. We prove that if such a component has codimension 1, then the parametrization is inverse to the logarithmic Gauss map of the component (an analogue of Kapranov's result for the $A$-discriminant). Our argument is based on the linearization of algebraic systems and the parametrization of the set of its critical values.

Keywords: discriminant locus, linearization of an algebraic system, logarithmic Gauss map.

UDC: 517.55+512.7

MSC: 32B10, 32S05, 32S70, 33C70

Received: 03.02.2011
Revised: 21.11.2011

DOI: 10.4213/im6990


 English version:
Izvestiya: Mathematics, 2012, 76:5, 881–906

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