{ "id": "math/0410520", "version": "v1", "published": "2004-10-25T08:58:22.000Z", "updated": "2004-10-25T08:58:22.000Z", "title": "On linear spaces of skew-symmetric matrices of constant rank", "authors": [ "Laurent Manivel", "Emilia Mezzetti" ], "comment": "12 pages", "categories": [ "math.AG" ], "abstract": "We describe the space of projective planes of complex skew-symmetric matrices of order six and constant rank four. We prove that it has four connected components, all of dimension 26 and homogeneous under the action of PGL_6.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2004-10-25T08:58:22.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "14M15", "14F05", "15A03" ], "keywords": [ "constant rank", "linear spaces", "complex skew-symmetric matrices", "connected components" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 12, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2004math.....10520M" } } }