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 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)

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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(19)

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• Virtual classes for the working mathematician
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• Mixed multiplicities, Segre numbers and Segre classes
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• 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 bottleneck degree of algebraic varieties
• The Segre zeta function of an ideal
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• Applications of intersection theory and gradients: from maximum likelihood to chromatic polynomials
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• How many hypersurfaces does it take to cut out a Segre class?
• Segre classes on smooth projective toric varieties
• Algorithms to compute the topological Euler characteristic, Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson class and Segre class of projective varieties
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• Computing characteristic classes of subschemes of smooth toric varieties
• Tensored Segre classes

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Uses Software

• Bertini
• Macaulay2

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