Some defective secant varieties to osculating varieties of Veronese surfaces.
We consider the k-osculating varietiesO to the Veronese d?uple embeddings of P. By studying the Hilbert function of certain zero-dimensional schemes Y ⊂ P, we find the dimension of O , the (s?1) secant varieties of O, for 3 ≤ s ≤ 6 and s = 9, and we determine whether those secant varieties are defective or not.