A generalized liaison addition (Q1314254)

If \(X\) and \(Y\) are curves in the projective three-space, \(M(X)\) and \(M(Y)\) their deficiency modules, and \(V\) a complete intersection of a surface containing \(X\) with a surface containing \(Y\), then in a natural way is defined a curve \(Z\) (which set-theoretically is \(X \cup Y \cup V)\) whose deficiency module is the direct sum of \(M(X)\) and \(M(Y)\) (suitably shifted). This is the well-known liaison addition. In this paper a ``generalized liaison addition'' is defined in such a way that the author can add any number of schemes, of mixed codimensions in the projective \(n\)-space. This construction reduces to the original one in codimension two. Several applications (to arithmetically Buchsbaum schemes, to arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay schemes, to the minimal resolution conjecture) are given in the last two sections.