Constructing Clifford quantum \(\mathbb P^3\)'s with finitely many points (Q2370205)

The authors present an algebro-geometric technique for constructing regular Clifford algebras \(A\) [see \textit{M. Vancliff, K. VanRompay} and \textit{L. Willaert}, Commun. Algebra 26, No. 4, 1193--1208 (1998; Zbl 0915.16035) for definitions and details] of global dimension four (called a Clifford quantum \(\mathbb{P}^3\)) with associated point scheme consisting of a prespecified finite number of points. M. Vancliff et al. [op. cit.] described how to count the number of points in the point scheme of a Clifford quantum \(\mathbb{P}^3\) by associating a projective space of quadrics to the algebra and counting the number of quadrics of rank at most two in that projective quadric space, and this method involves intersecting ten cubic surfaces in \(\mathbb{P}^3\). In this paper the authors show that if the algebra has at least two points, then this method can be replaced with the intersection of two planar cubic divisors; these cubic divisors correspond to regular Clifford subalgebras of \(A\) of global dimension three. They prove that if \(A\) has exactly a finite number \(n\) of distinct points in its point scheme, then \(n \in \{1,3,4,5,\dots,13,14,16,18,20\}\) and all these possibilities occur. They also prove that if a regular Clifford algebra \(R\) of global dimension \(d \geq 2\) has exactly a finite number \(n\) of distinct isomorphism classes of point modules, then \(n\) is odd if and only if \(R\) is an Ore extension of a regular Clifford subalgebra of \(R\) of global dimension \(d-1\). Finally, they apply the technique for constructing explicit examples of Clifford quantum \(\mathbb{P}^3\) with \(n= 3, 13, 20\).