From Pappus theorem to parameter spaces of some extremal line point configurations and applications

DOI10.1007/S10711-016-0207-8MaRDI QIDQ527598zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Magdalena Lampa-Baczyńska, Justyna Szpond

Publication date 12 May 2017

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03883

zbMATH Keywords

arrangement of linescombinatorial arrangementcontainment problem for powers of idealsPappus theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polynomial rings and ideals; rings of integer-valued polynomials (13F20) Configurations and arrangements of linear subspaces (14N20) Relations with arrangements of hyperplanes (32S22) Planar arrangements of lines and pseudolines (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C30) Arrangements of points, flats, hyperplanes (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C35)

Abstract: In the present work we study parameter spaces of two line point configurations introduced by B"or"oczky. These configurations are extremal from the point of view of Dirac-Motzkin Conjecture settled recently by Green and Tao. They have appeared also recently in commutative algebra in connection with the containment problem for symbolic and ordinary powers of homogeneous ideals and in algebraic geometry in considerations revolving around the Bounded Negativity Conjecture. Our main results are Theorem A and Theorem B. We show that the parameter space of what we call $B12$ configurations is a three dimensional rational variety. As a consequence we derive the existence of a three dimensional family of rational $B12$ configurations. On the other hand the moduli space of $B15$ configurations is shown to be an elliptic curve with only finitely many rational points, all corresponding to degenerate configurations. Thus, somewhat surprisingly, we conclude that there are no rational $B15$ configurations.

Review text

In this paper, the authors study the Böröczky configurations of twelve and 15 lines, respectively. Incidences of points and lines can be explained either synthetically by a variant of Pappus Theorem or algebraically. A straightforward computation shows that the twelve-line configurations are parameterized by an open subset of \((\mathbb{P}^1(\mathbb{R}))^3\). The inadmissible singular configurations are described explicitly. The case of the 15-line configurations is more involved. They are parameterized by an elliptic curve and contain only finitely man rational configurations all of which are inadmissible. Results of this paper suggest further research topics pertaining to the genus of Böröczky configuration with more lines and the constraints on point-line configurations imposed by rationality.

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