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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 ZZ defined by the saturated ideal IZ\mathcal{I}_Z, the regularity index computes the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of the Cohen-Macaulay ring R/IZ.R/\mathcal{I}_Z. For points in " general position" we improve the bound for the regularity index computed by Segre for P2\mathbb {P}^2 and generalised by Catalisano, Trung and Valla for Pn\mathbb {P}^n. Moreover, we prove that the generalised Segre's bound conjectured by Fatabbi and Lorenzini holds for n+3n+3 arbitrary points in Pn\mathbb {P}^n. 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

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