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A monotonicity conjecture for the local maximal singularity of the Hilbert scheme of points

Algebraic Geometry 2026-02-10 v2 Commutative Algebra Combinatorics

Abstract

The Brian\c{c}on-Iarrobino conjecture predicts the maximum singularity of the Hilbert scheme of a tetrahedral number of points. As for the maximal singularities of the Hilbert scheme of a non-tetrahedral number of points, the second named author gave some separate conjectural necessary and sufficient conditions. In this paper, we provide a conjectural sufficient condition for the necessary condition, and propose a monotonicity conjecture which predicts that for a fixed colength ll, the maximal dimension of the tangent space over all the Borel-fixed ideals of colength ll is increasing with respect to the smallest pure exponent of the ideal.

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@article{arxiv.2506.17704,
  title  = {A monotonicity conjecture for the local maximal singularity of the Hilbert scheme of points},
  author = {Alexia Ascott and Fatemeh Rezaee and Zhichen Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.17704},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

The main conjecture has been generalised