Needles in a haystack: Special varieties via small fields

MaRDI QIDQ2763711zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Frank-Olaf Schreyer, Fabio Tonoli

Publication date 22 January 2002

zbMATH Keywords

Calabi-Yau threefoldCoble self-dual setsfinite fieldGreen's conjectureMacaulay2unirationality of the moduli space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G15) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Computational aspects of higher-dimensional varieties (14Q15)

Review text

The authors illustrate how picking points over a finite field at random can help to investigate questions in algebraic geometry. In the first section they describe a Macaulay2 program that picks curves of genus \(g \leq 14\) at random. The authors interpret their approach as a `computer aided proof' for the unirationality of the moduli space \({\mathcal M}_g\) for \(g \leq 13.\) In fact they contribute to the problem to find an explicit unirational parametrization of \({\mathcal M}_g\) for \(g \leq 13.\) The second section is devoted to the application of `random curves' to prove the consequences of Green's conjecture on syzygies of canonical curves, and to compare these results with the corresponding statements for `Coble self-dual' sets of \(2g-2\) points in \(\mathbb P^{g-2}.\) In the final section the authors exploit their method to prove the existence of three components of the Hilbert scheme of Calabi-Yau threefolds of degree 17 in \(\mathbb P^6\) over the complex numbers. This is done by lifting to characteristic zero. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0973.00017].

Recommendations

• Computer aided unirationality proofs of moduli spaces
• Unirationality of the moduli spaces of curves of genus 11, 13 (and 12)
• Syzygies, finite length modules, and random curves
• A Version of Green’s Conjecture in Positive Characteristic
• The unirationality of the moduli spaces of curves of genus 14 or lower

Cited in

(11)

• Tonoli's Calabi-Yau threefolds revisited
• Unirationality of the Hurwitz space \(\mathcal {H}_{9,8}\)
• An explicit construction of ruled surfaces
• Even sets of nodes on sextic surfaces
• Calabi-Yau threefolds in P^6
• Computer aided unirationality proofs of moduli spaces
• Syzygies, finite length modules, and random curves
• A Version of Green’s Conjecture in Positive Characteristic
• Construction of Calabi-Yau 3-folds in \mathbb P^6
• Finding points on varieties with Macaulay2
• Syzygies of curves and the effective cone of \(\overline{\mathcal M}_g\)

Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• Macaulay2
• RandomSpaceCurves

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