Gale duality and free resolutions of ideals of points

DOI10.1007/S002220050315zbMATH Open0943.13011arXivalg-geom/9606018OpenAlexW2034171999MaRDI QIDQ1298083FDOQ1298083

Sorin Popescu, David Eisenbud

Publication date: 29 September 1999

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: What is the shape of the free resolution of the ideal of a general set of points in P^r? This question is central to the programme of connecting the geometry of point sets in projective space with the structure of the free resolutions of their ideals. There is a lower bound for the resolution computable from the (known) Hilbert function, and it seemed natural to conjecture that this lower bound would be achieved. This is the ``Minimal Resolution Conjecture (Lorenzini [1987], [1993]). Hirschowitz and Simpson [1994] showed that the conjecture holds when the number of points is large compared with r, but three examples (with r = 6,7,8) discovered computationally by Schreyer in 1993 show that the conjecture fails in general. We describe a novel structure inside the free resolution of a set of points which accounts for the observed failures and provides a counterexample in P^r for every rgeq 6, r eq 9. The geometry behind our construction occurs not in P^r but in a different projective space, in which there is a related set of points, the ``Gale transform (or ``associated set, in the sense of Coble.)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9606018

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zbMATH Keywords

Gale dualityminimal resolution conjecturegeneric points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Syzygies, resolutions, complexes and commutative rings (13D02) Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05) Varieties defined by ring conditions (factorial, Cohen-Macaulay, seminormal) (14M05)

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