%0 Journal Article %T Ranks of tensors and a generalization of secant varieties %A Jaros£¿aw Buczy¨½ski %A J. M. Landsberg %J Mathematics %D 2009 %I arXiv %R 10.1016/j.laa.2012.05.001 %X We introduce subspace rank as a tool for studying ranks of tensors and X-rank more generally. We derive a new upper bound for the rank of a tensor and determine the ranks of partially symmetric tensors in C^2 \otimes C^b \otimes C^b. We review the literature from a geometric perspective. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4262v5