Syzygies of the secant variety of a curve

DOI10.2140/ANT.2009.3.445MaRDI QIDQ2270643zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jessica Sidman, Peter Vermeire

Publication date 28 July 2009

Published in Algebra \& Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3056

zbMATH Keywords

secant varietiesSyzygiesgraded Betti numbersprojective curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Syzygies, resolutions, complexes and commutative rings (13D02) Projective techniques in algebraic geometry (14N05) Curves in algebraic geometry (14H99)

Abstract: We show that the secant variety of a linearly normal smooth curve of degree at least 2g+3 is arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay, and we use this information to study the graded Betti numbers of the secant variety.

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