Largest zero-dimensional intersection of $r$ degree $d$ hypersurfaces
Algebraic Geometry
2025-07-09 v1 Combinatorics
Number Theory
Abstract
Suppose we have hypersurfaces in of degree , whose defining polynomials are linearly independent, and their intersection has dimension . Then what is the largest possible intersection of the hypersurfaces? We conjecture an exact formula for this problem and prove it when . We show that this can be used to compute the generalized hamming weights of the projective Reed-Muller code and hence settle a conjecture of Beelen, Datta and Ghorpade for .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2507.05732,
title = {Largest zero-dimensional intersection of $r$ degree $d$ hypersurfaces},
author = {Deepesh Singhal and Yuxin Lin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.05732},
year = {2025}
}