On the Cayley-Bacharach property and the construction of vector bundles (Q763683)

The Cayley-Bacharach property goes back to \textit{A. Cayley} [Cambridge Math. J. 3 (1843)] and \textit{J. Bacharach} [Klein Ann. XXVI, 275--299 (1885; JFM 17.0666.01)]; originally it dealt with those curves that pass through \(8\) of the \(9\) points common to two cubic curves, but many extensions and generalizations have been considered in the years, also concerning vector bundles (see for instance \textit{D. Eisenbud, M. Green} and \textit{J. Harris} [Bull. Am. Math. Soc., New Ser. 33, No. 3, 295--324 (1996; Zbl 0871.14024)] and \textit{P. Griffiths} and \textit{J. Harris} [Principles of algebraic geometry. 2nd ed. New York, NY: John Wiley \& Sons Ltd. (1994; Zbl 0836.14001), page 731]). The starting point of the present paper are two papers by \textit{S.-L. Tan} [J. Algebr. Geom. 9, No. 2, 201--222 (2000; Zbl 0953.14033)] and \textit{S.-L. Tan} with \textit{E. Viehweg} [in Complex analysis and algebraic geometry. A volume in memory of Michael Schneider. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 361--373 (2000; Zbl 1067.14512)], where the Cayley-Bacharach property of a zero-dimensional subscheme \(Y \subset X\) (\(X\) smooth complex variety of dimension \(n \geq 2\)), defined by the global sections of a vector bundle, is proved to be equivalent to the \(k\)-very ampleness of an adjoint system. The present paper proves that the result still holds for the zero-dimensional subscheme \(Y \subset X\) defined by the zeros of the wedge of \(r-n+1\) global sections of a rank \(r \geq n\) vector bundle. This is a generalization of [Griffiths and Harris, loc. cit., proposition of page 677]. The paper also gives, as an application, a construction of reflexive sheaves with high rank that generalizes the Hartshorne-Serre correspondence.