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Largest zero-dimensional intersection of $r$ degree $d$ hypersurfaces

Algebraic Geometry 2025-07-09 v1 Combinatorics Number Theory

Abstract

Suppose we have rr hypersurfaces in Pm\mathbb{P}^m of degree dd, whose defining polynomials are linearly independent, and their intersection has dimension 00. Then what is the largest possible intersection of the rr hypersurfaces? We conjecture an exact formula for this problem and prove it when m=2m=2. We show that this can be used to compute the generalized hamming weights of the projective Reed-Muller code PRMq(d,2)\operatorname{PRM}_q(d,2) and hence settle a conjecture of Beelen, Datta and Ghorpade for m=2m=2.

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@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}
}
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