Structures of the Length Seven Power Sum Decompositions of Ternary Quartics

Abstract

Motivated by the search for a deeper understanding of tensor rank, in view of its computational complexity applications, we investigate a possible path to determine the maximum symmetric rank in given degree and dimension. We work in terms of Waring rank of forms, and aiming to set up a firm basis for an induction procedure we examine some technical tools to organize length seven Waring decompositions of ternary quartics, that may turn to be fundamental.