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1. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

   No Occurrence Obstructions in Geometric Complexity Theory

   Bürgisser, Ikenmeyer and Panova · Journal of the American Mathematical Society · 2016

   The paper shows that occurrence obstructions cannot separate the orbit closures of the determinant and padded permanent, while leaving open the wider approach using multiplicity obstructions.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper proves that separating the determinant and padded permanent orbit closures by occurrence obstructions, as Mulmuley and Sohoni proposed, is impossible.“In that paper it was also proposed to separate these orbit closures by exhibiting occurrence obstructions, which are irreducible representations of GL_{n^2}(C), which occur in one coordinate ring of the orbit closure, but not in the other. We prove that this approach is impossible.”