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Jan 26, 2016 at 17:51 comment added Robert Bryant While I can't correct it now, in my comment above, wherever I wrote $\mathrm{Gr}(3,6)$, I should have written $\mathrm{Gr}(6,9)$, i.e., the Grassmannian of $6$-dimensional subspaces of a $9$-dimensional subspace.
Jan 26, 2016 at 17:45 answer added Robert Bryant timeline score: 3
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Jan 26, 2016 at 12:54 comment added Matthias Ludewig This would be the kind of answer I would be interested in. Is $U$ a dense subset? Probably one could characterize its complement by equations? I edited the post above.
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Jan 26, 2016 at 12:30 comment added Robert Bryant You should say what you mean by 'characterize'. The set of 6-dimensional subspaces of $\mathbb{R}^{3\times 3}$ is a compact manifold $\mathrm{Gr}(3,6)$ of dimension $18$, and it's clear (because of the examples already given) that the set of 6-dimensional spaces that don't meet $\mathrm{O}(3)$ is a (nonempty) open set $U\subset \mathrm{Gr}(3,6)$, so you are asking for a 'characterization' of an open subset in $\mathrm{Gr}(3,6)$. It can't be by equations, but maybe by some kind of inequality that defines the boundary of the set $U$ in $\mathrm{Gr}(3,6)$. Is that the sort of answer you seek?
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Jan 26, 2016 at 10:40 answer added Roberto Pignatelli timeline score: 4
Jan 26, 2016 at 10:36 comment added user1688 Take the subspace of matrices with first column equal to zero.
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