When the positivity of the h-vector implies the Cohen-Macaulay property

Abstract: We study relations between the Cohen-Macaulay property and the positivity of

h

-vectors, showing that these two conditions are equivalent for those locally Cohen-Macaulay equidimensional closed projective subschemes

X

, which are close to a complete intersection

Y

(of the same codimension) in terms of the difference between the degrees. More precisely, let

X s u b s e t m a t h b b P_{K}^{n}

(

n g e q 4

) be contained in

Y

, either of codimension two with

d e g (Y) - d e g (X) l e q 5

or of codimension

g e q 3

with

d e g (Y) - d e g (X) l e q 3

. Over a field

K

of characteristic 0, we prove that

X

is arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay if and only if its

h

-vector is positive, improving results of a previous work. We show that this equivalence holds also for space curves

C

with

d e g (Y) - d e g (C) l e q 5

in every characteristic

c h (K) e q 2

. Moreover, we find other classes of subschemes for which the positivity of the

h

-vector implies the Cohen-Macaulay property and provide several examples.

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