A METHOD TO COMPUTE SEGRE CLASSES OF SUBSCHEMES OF PROJECTIVE SPACE

DOI10.1142/S0219498812501423zbMath1274.13044arXiv1109.5895OpenAlexW1971541560MaRDI QIDQ4909147

David Eklund, Chris Peterson, Christine Jost

Publication date: 12 March 2013

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Abstract: We present a method to compute the degrees of the Segre classes of a subscheme of complex projective space. The method is based on generic residuation and intersection theory. It has been implemented using the software system Macaulay2.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.5895

zbMATH Keywords

computational algebraic geometrySegre classesnumerical homotopy methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical computation of solutions to systems of equations (65H10) Intersection theory, characteristic classes, intersection multiplicities in algebraic geometry (14C17) General theory of numerical methods in complex analysis (potential theory, etc.) (65E05) Computational aspects in algebraic geometry (14Qxx) Computational aspects and applications of commutative rings (13Pxx)

Cites Work

• Chern numbers of smooth varieties via homotopy continuation and intersection theory
• Regenerative cascade homotopies for solving polynomial systems
• Computing characteristic classes of projective schemes.
• Joins and Intersections

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Uses Software

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• Bertini

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