Linearly presented perfect ideals of codimension 2 in three variables (Q1655807)

In the paper under review, the authors study the fine structure of the linearly presented perfect ideals of codimension two in three variables with particular emphasis on the Cohen-Macaulay, normal and fiber type properties of the associated Rees algebra and the special fiber. There is a vast literature on codimension two perfect ideals in the case the ideal satisfies the usual generic properties or the so-called ($G_d$) condition. One first attempt to get away from the ($G_d$) condition or others of similar nature is a recent result of \textit{N. P. H. Lan} [J. Pure Appl. Algebra 221, No. 9, 2180--2191 (2017; Zbl 1453.13018)]. In the present paper, the authors recover and extend his work. More precisely, the authors introduce the so-called \textit{chaos invariant} associated to the Hilbert-Burch matrix of $I$. In the case the chaos invariant is one (minimal possible), they recover Lan's result with additional contents. They also give applications of these results to three important models: linearly presented ideals of plane fat points, reciprocal ideals of hyperplane arrangements and linearly presented monomial ideals. \par In the paper the authors strongly focus on the behavior of the ideals of minors of the corresponding Hilbert-Burch matrix and on conjugation features of the latter.