{ "id": "1007.1695", "version": "v1", "published": "2010-07-10T04:05:47.000Z", "updated": "2010-07-10T04:05:47.000Z", "title": "Geometry of orbits of permanents and determinants", "authors": [ "Shrawan Kumar" ], "comment": "28 pages", "categories": [ "math.AG", "math.RT" ], "abstract": "We prove that the orbit closure of the determinant is not normal. A similar result is obtained for the orbit closure of the permanent multiplied by a power of a linear form.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2010-07-10T04:05:47.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "14L30", "14L24", "14R20", "20G05" ], "keywords": [ "determinant", "orbit closure", "linear form" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 28, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2010arXiv1007.1695K" } } }