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The Euclidean distance degree of smooth complex projective varieties

Paolo Aluffi and Corey Harris
Vol. 12 (2018), No. 8, 2005–2032
DOI: 10.2140/ant.2018.12.2005
Abstract

We obtain several formulas for the Euclidean distance degree (ED degree) of an arbitrary nonsingular variety in projective space: in terms of Chern and Segre classes, Milnor classes, Chern–Schwartz–MacPherson classes, and an extremely simple formula equating the Euclidean distance degree of X with the Euler characteristic of an open subset of X.

Keywords
algebraic optimization, intersection theory, characteristic classes, Chern–Schwartz–MacPherson classes
Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 14C17
Secondary: 14N10, 57R20
Milestones
Received: 3 November 2017
Revised: 3 May 2018
Accepted: 19 June 2018
Published: 4 December 2018
Authors
Paolo Aluffi
Department of Mathematics
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL
United States
Corey Harris
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Leipzig
Germany