A method to compute Segre classes of subschemes of projective space

DOI10.1142/S0219498812501423MaRDI QIDQ4909147zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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)

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

zbMATH Keywords

computational algebraic geometrynumerical homotopy methodsSegre classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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• The bottleneck degree of algebraic varieties
• Tensored Segre classes
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• Applications of intersection theory and gradients: from maximum likelihood to chromatic polynomials

Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• Macaulay2
• Bertini

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