Unstable hyperplanes for Steiner bundles and multidimensional matrices

TLDR: In this article, it was shown that the symmetry group of a Steiner bundle is contained in SLO2U and that the Steiner bundles are exactly the bundles introduced by Schwarzen- berger (Schw), which correspond to ''identity'' matrices.

Abstract: We study some properties of the natural action of SLOV0U SLOVpU on non- degenerate multidimensional complex matrices A A POV0 n n VpU of boundary format (in the sense of Gelfand, Kapranov and Zelevinsky); in particular we characterize the non-stable ones as the matrices which are in the orbit of a ''triangular'' matrix, and the matrices with a stabilizer containing C as those which are in the orbit of a ''diagonal'' matrix. For pa 2i t turns out that a non-degenerate matrix A A POV0 n V1 n V2U detects a Steiner bundle SA (in the sense of Dolgachev and Kapranov) on the projective space P n , na dimOV2Uˇ1. As a consequence we prove that the symmetry group of a Steiner bundle is contained in SLO2U and that the SLO2U-invariant Steiner bundles are exactly the bundles introduced by Schwarzen- berger (Schw), which correspond to ''identity'' matrices. We can characterize the points of the moduli space of Steiner bundles which are stable for the action of AutOP n U, answering in the first nontrivial case a question posed by Simpson. In the opposite direction we obtain some results about Steiner bundles which imply properties of matrices. For example the number of unstable hyperplanes of SA (counting multiplicities) produces an interesting discrete invariant of A, which can take the values 0; 1; 2; .. .; dim V0a 1o ry; the y case occurs if and only if SA is Schwarzenberger (and A is an identity). Finally, the Gale transform for Steiner bun- dles introduced by Dolgachev and Kapranov under the classical name of association can be understood in this setting as the transposition operator on multidimensional matrices.