The minimum distance of sets of points and the minimum socle degree

Abstract: Let

m a t h b b K

be a field of characteristic 0. Let

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

be a reduced finite set of points, not all contained in a hyperplane. Let

h y p (G a m m a)

be the maximum number of points of

G a m m a

contained in any hyperplane, and let

d (G a m m a) = | G a m m a | - h y p (G a m m a)

. If

I s u b s e t R = m a t h b b K [x_{0}, ..., x_{n}]

is the ideal of

G a m m a

, then in cite{t1} it is shown that for

n = 2, 3

,

d (G a m m a)

has a lower bound expressed in terms of some shift in the graded minimal free resolution of

R / I

. In these notes we show that this behavior is true in general, for any

n g e q 2

:

d (G a m m a) g e q A_{n}

, where

A_{n} = m i n a_{i} - n

and

o p l u s_{i} R (- a_{i})

is the last module in the graded minimal free resolution of

R / I

. In the end we also prove that this bound is sharp for a whole class of examples due to Juan Migliore (cite{m}).

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