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Must 'special' $u,v \in \mathbb{C}[x,y]$ be symmetric polynomials?

The idea for the following question came from Joachim König's last comment appearing here, namely, the example with $u=x+y^3,v=x^3+y$. Let $u,v \in \mathbb{C}[x,y]-\mathbb{C}$. Denote by $\alpha$ the ...
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Singular locus of zero set of elementary symmetric polynomial

Let $\sigma_{m, r}$ be the degree-$r$ elementary symmetric polynomial in $m$ variables. Let $X_{m, r}$ be the zero set of $\sigma_{m, r}$ and $S_{m, r}$ its singular locus. I.e., $S_{m,r}$ is the set ...
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Irreducibility of a certain matrix variety

Let $R=\mathbb{Q}[x_{i,j}\,:\, 1\leq i,j\leq n]$. Let $M$ be the $n\times n$ matrix $(x_{i.j})$. Let $\chi(M)$ be the characteristic polynomial of $M$. Finally, let $I$ be the ideal of $R$ ...
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