Talk:Plücker embedding

Plucker relations
The section on Plucker relations makes no sense whatsoever. The notations are inconsistent and the equation meaningless. It should be rewritten properly. 89.92.222.80 (talk) 22:33, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

The article Plucker_coordinates gives an explicit description (with proof) of the quadratic relation between the coordinates for lines in projective 3-space. Does anyone know a good reference for the general case? It's a shame that now we don't even explicitly give those quadratic equations. Evilbu (talk) 15:02, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I added a tag requesting expert attention.Evilbu (talk) 06:02, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

In general, they are "Grassmann–Plucker" relations. They are buried in the mess of embeddings and exterior algebra. There should be a page for "Grassmann–Plucker relations" that states them clearly and simply. This author was carried away on a magic carpet of fancy math without regard for the audience. Zaslav (talk) 18:53, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Grassmann coordinates
The page "Grassmann coordinates" redirects to here. However if this article contains anything about Grassmann coordinates, it's in a way that 's not recognizable to me. Compare Plücker coordinates (on that page was the link I followed to get redirected here), which is a nice, understandable description of those coordinates.

Therefore I would be grateful if someone
 * either added something about Grassmann coordinates to this page, at a level similar to the page about Plücker coordinates,
 * or replaced the redirection on Grassmann coordinates with an article containing that information,
 * or added that information to Plücker coordinates and made Grassmann coordinates redirect there.

As is, I can only guess what Grassmann coordinates are. Maybe someone with better linear algebra background could extract the information from the existing page, but I definitely can't. --132.199.99.50 (talk) 17:24, 13 September 2016 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure, but I think "Grassmann coordinates" are the same thing as "Plucker coordinates", but for n other than 3. But these are also sometimes called "Plucker coordinates", the only problem here being that the article on Plucker coordinates talks exclusively about n=3 and no other case. But I think they are the same thing. 67.198.37.16 (talk) 06:50, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

Error in Section on Plucker Relations
I strongly suspect there is an error in the section on plucker relations. The point is that the z_i are introduced and don't reappear in the formula while at the same time all sorts of v_i show up that are not defined before. Maybe the solution is just to replace all v's with z's but I don't feel confident to do that, since I am new to the subject. Could someone fix this? Thanks is advance! 23:28, 2 January 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Octonion (talk • contribs)


 * It looks like someone fixed this already. 67.198.37.16 (talk) 06:52, 15 November 2020 (UTC)