Fixed loci in even linkage classes

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Let \(\mathcal L\) be a non-ACM even liaison class of pure codimension 2 subschemes of projective space \(\mathbb P^n\). It is known (thanks to work of several authors) that \(\mathcal L\) has the so-called Lazarsfeld-Rao property. This property says that there is a partition \(\mathcal L = \mathcal L^0 \cup \mathcal L^1 \cup \cdots \cup \mathcal L^h \cup \cdots\) so that (a) all elements of \(\mathcal L^0\) are in the same deformation class (with all elements in \(\mathcal L\)) and (b) for any \(X_0 \in \mathcal L^0\) and \(X \in \mathcal L^h\) there is a (reducible) element \(Y \in \mathcal L^h\) produced from \(X_0\) by a process called basic double linkage, so that \(Y\) and \(X\) are in the same deformation class (again staying in \(\mathcal L\)). The integer \(h\) is called the height of \(X\) and the deformation class of \(X\) in \(\mathcal L\) is denoted \(H_X\). In several papers the author has carefully studied the integral curves in \(\mathcal L\), and in particular the question of which of these deformation classes \(H_X\) contain integral elements. In particular, when \(\mathcal L\) has an integral minimal element \(X_0\), he has shown in earlier work which deformation classes in \(\mathcal L\) contain integral elements. The current paper is devoted to the study of the situation when \(\mathcal L\) does not contain an integral minimal element. The author introduces fixed loci of \(\mathcal L\)\N\[\NF(\mathcal L) = \bigcap_{Y \in \mathcal L^0} Y\N\]\Nand studies the properties of \(F(\mathcal L)\) to give necessary conditions for the existence of these integral elements, and he shows sharpness in several examples. As an application he turns to the case of curves in \(\mathbb P^3\) and determines all the deformation classes containing integral elements when the Rao module associated to \(\mathcal L\) is a complete intersection.



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