Some irreducible Hilbert schemes (Q910444)

By a theorem of F. S. Macaulay, Hilbert polynomials of ideals in \({\mathbb{P}}^ n\) correspond to sequences of integers \(0<a_ 0\leq a_ 1\leq...\leq a_ s\) with \(s\leq r-1\). The author shows that the ideals with \(s\leq r-2\) have a simple canonical form. The irreducibility of the corresponding Hilbert schemes is immediate. The proof uses the technique of comparison with monomial ideals.