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Kinematic variety for spinor brackets and multilinear rank

Show that the kinematic variety defined by spinor brackets of order ≤ 3 coincides with the variety of tensors whose multilinear rank is ≤ (2,4,2), as conjectured by Rajan–Sverrisdóttir–Sturmfels (Conjecture 6.2).

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Background

Kinematic data for massless particles can be packaged in spinor brackets satisfying determinantal and rank constraints. The conjecture identifies this kinematic variety with a specified tensor-rank locus, bridging physics-inspired algebraic varieties with multilinear algebra. Proving the identification would unify representation-theoretic and tensorial descriptions of kinematics.

References

Show that the kinematic variety for spinor brackets of order $\leq 3$ is the variety of tensors with multilinear rank $\leq (2,4,2)$. \ \ Conjecture 6.2.

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