Identifiability for a Class of Symmetric Tensors

Abstract

We use methods of algebraic geometry to find new, effective methods for detecting the identifiability of symmetric tensors. In particular, for ternary symmetric tensors T of degree 7, we use the analysis of the Hilbert function of a finite projective set, and the Cayley–Bacharach property, to prove that, when the Kruskal’s ranks of a decomposition of T are maximal (a condition which holds outside a Zariski closed set of measure 0), then the tensor T is identifiable, i.e., the decomposition is unique, even if the rank lies beyond the range of application of both the Kruskal’s and the reshaped Kruskal’s criteria.