ABSTRACT
We give a negative answer to a question by J. M. Landsberg on the nature of normalizations of orbit closures. A counterexample originates from the study of complex, ternary, cubic forms.
Acknowledgment
I thank Peter Bürgisser very much for his many helpful comments about this note. I also extend my gratitude to J. M. Landsberg for his encouragement and several related discussions. Finally, I am grateful to Christian Ikenmeyer for providing Formula (5) in Section 5.