Containment results for ideals of various configurations of points in \(\mathbb P^N\) (Q392374)

\textit{B. Harbourne} and \textit{C. Huneke} in the paper ``Are symbolic powers highly evolved?'' [J. Ramanujan Math. Soc. 28A, 247--266 (2013; Zbl 1296.13018)] state a series of conjectures (see Section 3) involving containment of symbolic powers of ideals in their regular powers, as well as bounding the initial degrees of symbolic powers in terms of the initial degrees of the ideal itself. In this paper, the author consider these conjectures specialized to various configurations of points. In Section 4, the authors verify that the conjectures hold under the assumption that the symbolic and ordinary powers are the same, such as when the points comprise a complete intersection. In Section 5 they consider the case of points on smooth plane conics. In Section 6 they study certain important special point sets of \(\mathbb P^N\) called star configurations. In Section 7, they look at sets of points contained in a hyperplane, as a corollary of which they recover and extend a Dumnicki's result. In Section 8 they investigate general sets of points in the plane. They conclude in Section 9 with a few additional characteristic \(0\) results for \(\mathbb P^N\) .