A method to compute Segre classes of subschemes of projective space

DOI10.1142/S0219498812501423zbMATH Open1274.13044arXiv1109.5895OpenAlexW1971541560MaRDI QIDQ4909147FDOQ4909147

Authors: David Eklund, Christine Jost, Chris Peterson 

Publication date: 12 March 2013

Published in: Journal of Algebra and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a method to compute the degrees of the Segre classes of a subscheme of complex projective space. The method is based on generic residuation and intersection theory. It has been implemented using the software system Macaulay2.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.5895

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zbMATH Keywords

computational algebraic geometrySegre classesnumerical homotopy methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of numerical methods in complex analysis (potential theory, etc.) (65E05) Numerical computation of solutions to systems of equations (65H10) Intersection theory, characteristic classes, intersection multiplicities in algebraic geometry (14C17) Computational aspects and applications of commutative rings (13Pxx) Computational aspects in algebraic geometry (14Qxx)

Cites Work

• Computing characteristic classes of projective schemes.
• Joins and Intersections
• Regenerative cascade homotopies for solving polynomial systems
• Chern numbers of smooth varieties via homotopy continuation and intersection theory

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• Computing characteristic classes and the topological Euler characteristic of complex projective schemes
• Mixed multiplicities, Segre numbers and Segre classes
• The degree complexity of smooth surfaces of codimension
• A direct algorithm to compute the topological Euler characteristic and Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson class of projective complete intersection varieties
• A formula for Segre classes of singular projective varieties
• The Segre zeta function of an ideal
• A relative Segre zeta function
• Chern numbers of smooth varieties via homotopy continuation and intersection theory
• How many hypersurfaces does it take to cut out a Segre class?
• Segre class computation and practical applications
• Segre classes on smooth projective toric varieties
• Algorithms to compute the topological Euler characteristic, Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson class and Segre class of projective varieties
• Computing Segre classes in arbitrary projective varieties
• Computing characteristic classes of subschemes of smooth toric varieties
• Tensored Segre classes
• The Bottleneck Degree of Algebraic Varieties
• Segre Classes and Invariants of Singular Varieties

Uses Software

• Macaulay2
• Bertini

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