Quasi-complete intersections of monomial curves in projective three-space (Q4938513)

This article contains a survey of historical and recent results about quasi-complete intersections, in particular about quasicomplete intersections of monomial curves in \(\mathbb{P}^3\). Starting with a general algebraic characterization of quasi-complete intersections [namely theorem 5 of the paper by \textit{J. Stückrad}, Arch. Math. 58, 529-538 (1992; Zbl 0758.14033)] and with an algorithm for computing a minimal set of generators of the vanishing ideal of a curve \(\{(t_0^{n_3},t_0^{n_3-n_1} t_1^{n_1}, t_0^{n_3-n_2} t_1^{n_2},t_1^{n_3})\mid (t_0,t_1)\in\mathbb{P}^1\}\) in \(\mathbb{P}^3\) [see \textit{H. Bresinsky} and \textit{B. Renschuch}, Math. Nachr. 96, 257-269 (1980; Zbl 0419.13001)], the authors state a general classification theorem of such curves. The proof of this theorem, which is contained in two preprints of the authors, is outlined by listing the necessary lemmas and corollaries. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0921.00043].