Some syzygies of the generators of the ideal of a border basis scheme

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Abstract: A border basis scheme is an affine scheme that can be viewed as an open subscheme of the Hilbert scheme of mu points of affine n-space. We study syzygies of the generators of a border basis scheme's defining ideal. These generators arise as the entries of the commutators of certain matrices (the "generic multiplication matrices"). We consider two families of syzygies that are closely connected to these matrices: The first arises from the Jacobi identity, and the second from the fact that the trace of a commutator is 0. Several examples of both types of syzygy are presented, including a proof that the border basis schemes in case n = 2 are complete intersections.


A border basis scheme is an affine scheme parameterizing ideals \(I\) in a polynomial ring \(R\) which have a certain given finite monomial basis. It therefore plays an important role in the study of Hilbert schemes as it appears as an open subscheme of the Hilbert scheme of a finite number of points. The author's nice article computes explicitly some syzygies on generators of the ideal of a border basis scheme. The work makes use of the fact that these generators arise as entries in certain commutators of matrices. One application that is presented is a proof that when the number of variables in \(R\) is two then any border basis scheme is a complete intersection. The article is clear, thorough, and contains the relevant background material. It is a great resource for anyone studying border basis schemes or more generally Hilbert schemes of a finite number of points.











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