Lower bounds for Waldschmidt constants of generic lines in \({\mathbb {P}}^3\) and a Chudnovsky-type theorem (Q2632561)

Consider a finite set of $s\geq 1$ very general lines $\mathcal{L} \subset \mathbb{P}^{3}_{\Bbbk}$, where $\Bbbk$ is an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. In the paper under review, the authors study the Waldschmidt constants of radical ideals associated with $\mathcal{L}$. Let us recall that if $I \subset R = \Bbbk[x_{0}, \dots, x_{N}]$ is a homogeneous ideal, then the $m$-th symbolic power $I^{(m)}$ is defined as \[ I^{(m)} = R \cap \bigcap_{P \in \text{Ass}(I)}I^{m}R_{P}, \] where the intersection is taken in the ring of fractions of $R$. We define also the initial degree of $I$, namely \[ \alpha(I) = \min \{t: I_{t} \neq 0\}, \] where $I_{t}$ denotes the degree $t$ part of $I$. Finally, the Waldschmidt constant of $I$ is defined as \[ \widehat{\alpha}(I) = \text{lim}_{m \rightarrow \infty} \frac{\alpha(I^{(m)})}{m}. \] The main results of the paper can be formulated as follows. \par Theorem A. Let $\mathcal{L}_{s}\subset \mathbb{P}^{3}_{\Bbbk}$ be a finite set of $s\geq 1$ very general lines and denote by $I_{s}$ the radical ideal associated with $\mathcal{L}_{s}$, then \[ \widehat{\alpha}(I_{s})\geq \lfloor \sqrt{2s-1} \rfloor. \] Theorem B. Let $\mathcal{L}_{s}\subset \mathbb{P}^{3}_{\Bbbk}$ be a finite set of $s$ very general lines such that $s\notin \{4,7,10\}$, and denote by $I_{s}$ the radical ideal associated with $\mathcal{L}_{s}$, then \[ \widehat{\alpha}(I_{s})\geq \lfloor \sqrt{2.5s} \rfloor. \]