Configuration types and cubic surfaces

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2008.05.032MaRDI QIDQ958640zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Elena Guardo, Brian Harbourne

Publication date 5 December 2008

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3015

zbMATH Keywords

Fat pointsFree ResolutionsHilbert FunctionMatrids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special surfaces (14J25)

Abstract: This paper is a sequel to the paper cite{refGH}. We relate the matroid notion of a combinatorial geometry to a generalization which we call a configuration type. Configuration types arise when one classifies the Hilbert functions and graded Betti numbers for fat point subschemes supported at $nle8$ essentially distinct points of the projective plane. Each type gives rise to a surface $X$ obtained by blowing up the points. We classify those types such that $n=6$ and $-K_X$ is nef. The surfaces obtained are precisely the desingularizations of the normal cubic surfaces. By classifying configuration types we recover in all characteristics the classification of normal cubic surfaces, which is well-known in characteristic 0 cite{refBW}. As an application of our classification of configuration types, we obtain a numerical procedure for determining the Hilbert function and graded Betti numbers for the ideal of any fat point subscheme $Z=m_1{p}_1+\mathrm{...}+m_6{p}_6$ such that the points $p_i$ are essentially distinct and $-K_X$ is nef, given only the configuration type of the points $p_1,\mathrm{...},p_6$ and the coefficients $m_i$.

Review text

This paper takes into consideration sets of six points (also infinitely near) \(P_1,\dots ,P_6\) in \({\mathbb P}^2\), and studies how the Hilbert function and graded Betti numbers of schemes of ``fat points (i.e. schemes defined by ideals of type \(I_{P_1}^{m_1}\cap \dots \cap I_{P_6}^{m_6}\)) are related to the geometry of the surface \(X\) obtained by blowing up \({\mathbb P}^2\) at the points. The case treated here is when \(-K_X\) is effective and the points are allowed to be infinitely near (thus generalizing previous work by the authors which considered the case of distinct points). It turns out that the graded Betti numbers (hence also the Hilbert function) only depend on multiplicities \(m_1,\dots ,m_6\) and the structure of effective divisor classes on \(X\) having negative self-intersection. The structure of these divisor classes is determined via the ``configuration type \(T\) of the points, i.e. (given an order to the points) by using a matrix made of 1's and 0's, with 7 columns and a row for each line which contains three or more of the \(P_i\)'s. An explicit numerical procedure is given to get the Betti numbers of the fat points from \(T\) and \(m_1,\dots ,m_6\).

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