On Segre's bound for fat points in $\mathbb{P}^n$
Algebraic Geometry
2015-10-27 v2 Commutative Algebra
Abstract
For a scheme of fat points defined by the saturated ideal , the regularity index computes the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of the Cohen-Macaulay ring For points in " general position" we improve the bound for the regularity index computed by Segre for and generalised by Catalisano, Trung and Valla for . Moreover, we prove that the generalised Segre's bound conjectured by Fatabbi and Lorenzini holds for arbitrary points in . We propose a modification of Segre's conjecture for arbitrary points and we discuss some evidences.
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@article{arxiv.1504.05151,
title = {On Segre's bound for fat points in $\mathbb{P}^n$},
author = {Edoardo Ballico and Olivia Dumitrescu and Elisa Postinghel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.05151},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Revised version: statement of Theorem 3.6 corrected, Section 4.1 with a proof of Conjecture 4.1 for n=3 added. Accepted for publication in JPAA. 19 pages