New methods for determining speciality of linear systems based at fat points in P^n

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Abstract: In this paper we develop techniques for determining the dimension of linear systems of divisors based at a collection of general fat points in P^n by partitioning the monomial basis for the vector space of global sections of O(d). The methods we develop can be viewed as extensions of those developed by Dumnicki. We apply these techniques to produce new lower bounds on multi-point Seshadri constants of P^2 and to provide a new proof of a known result confirming the perfect-power cases of Iarrobino's analogue to Nagata's Conjecture in higher dimension.


Let \(\mathbb{P}^n\) be the \(n\)-dimensional projective space (over a field of characteristic \(0\)). Consider \(r\) general points \(p_1, \dots, p_r \in \mathbb{P}^n\) and a \(r\)-uple \(m=(m_1,\dots, m_r)\) of positive integers. It is a classical task to compute the dimension of the linear system \(V^n(d,m)\) of hypersurfaces of degree \(d\) passing by \(p_i\) with multiplicity at least \(m_i\) (\(i=1, \dots, r\)). This computation is, in fact, a matrix rank computation and the paper under review (extending previous methods by Dumnicki) proposes a method for it based on partitioning the monomial basis of the vector space \(H^0({\mathcal O}_{\mathbb{P}^n}(d))\) of degree \(d\) homogeneous polynomials. Several applications of the method are described: (1) There is a natural \textit{expected dimension} for these linear systems, say: \[ \dim V ^n(d,m)=\max \{ {d+n \choose n} -\Sigma{m_i+n-1 \choose n}, 0\} \] and \((n,d,m)\) is \textit{special} when the dimension of \(V^n(d,m)\) fails to be the expected one. In Section 4 new algorithms for determining speciality are provided. (2) The \textit{multipoint Seshadri constant} of \(\mathbb{P}^2\) at \(p_1, \dots, p_r\) is the infimum over the set of plane curves \(C\) of the quotients of the degree of \(C\) over the sum of the mutliplicities of \(C\) at \(p_i\). New lower bounds on multipont Seshadri constants of \(\mathbb{P}^2\) are produced (see Figure 5.2). (3) A classical conjecture in the field is Nagata's one: if \(m_1=\dots =m_r=M\) and \(r>9\) then \(d^2 \leq rM^2\) implies \(\dim V^2(d,m)=0\). This conjecture was generalized to any dimension by Iarrobino (see Section 5.2 for details) and is known to be true in the perfect-power cases (cf. \textit{L. Evain} [J. Algebra 285, No. 2, 516--530 (2005; Zbl 1077.14012)]). A new proof of this result is also given.











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