Genus calculations of complete intersections

DOI10.1080/00927879808826291MaRDI QIDQ4212518zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Feza Arslan, Sinan Sertöz

Publication date 1 February 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00927879808826291, http://hdl.handle.net/11693/25311

zbMATH Keywords

arithmetic genuscomplete intersectionHilbert polynomialKoszul resolutionramification indicesregular differentials on the curveRiemann-Hurwitz formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hilbert-Samuel and Hilbert-Kunz functions; Poincaré series (13D40) Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus (14H45) Complete intersections (14M10)

Review text

In the paper under review, the authors calculate the arithmetic genus of a projective complete intersection of any dimension over the complex field and the genus of the projective closure \(\overline C\) of an affine curve \(C\), which is the complete intersection of hypersurfaces given by \[ \left\{ \begin{matrix} y_1^{d_1} & = & (x-a_{11}) \cdots(x-a_{1m})\\ y_2^{d_2} & = & (x-a_{21}) \cdots (x-a_{2m})\\ \vdots & \vdots \\ y_n^{d_n} & = & (x-a_{nn})\cdots(x-a_{nm}) \end{matrix} \right. \] where \(2\leq d_1\leq\cdots\leq d_n\leq m-1\) and all \(a_{ij}\)' are distinct elements of the complex field. The authors calculate the Hilbert polynomial of a projective complete intersection by using the Koszul resolution. The arithmetic genus is then obtained from the constant term of the Hilbert polynomial. The authors notice that their method is different from F. Hirzebruch's one making use of Riemann-Roch-Hirzebruch theorem. Reviewer's remark: The method of the authors is rather close to \textit{J.-P. Serre}'s method [``Faisceaux algébrique cohérents, Ann. Math., II. Ser. 61, 197-278 (1955; Zbl 0067.16201)]. -- In the case of the affine curve \(C\), the genus of \(\overline C\) is the genus of a nonsingular model of \(\overline C\). The method to compute this genus involves the ramification indices that contributed by resolving the singular points at infinity of \(C\). A direct application of Riemann-Hurwitz formula yields the genus as a function of the degree of the hypersurfaces cutting the curve. The authors also show to count the regular differentials on the curve. In this way, they generalize methods and results of A. G. Khovanskii, F. Özbudak and S. A. Stepanov, in: Proc. 3rd Int. Conf., Glasgow 1995 [see e.g. \textit{S. A. Stepanov}, in: Proc. 3rd int. Conf., Glasgow 1995, Lond. Math. Soc. Lect. Note Ser. 233, 355-378 (1996; Zbl 0868.11057)].

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