On the intersection of the curves through a set of points in P^2

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Abstract: Given a set of points in P^2, we consider the common zeros of the set of curves of a given degree passing through those points. For general sets of points, these zero sets have the expected dimension and are smooth. In fact, given graded Betti numbers, for any arrangement of points whose ideal has those graded Betti numbers, general among such arrangements, the zero sets have the expected dimension and are smooth.


Fix a finite set \(S \subset \mathbb {P}^2\) and an integer \(d\). Let \(Z(d,S)\) be the common zeros of all degree \(d\) plane curves containing \(d\). If \(S\) is general among the subsets of the plane with the graded Betti numbers of \(S\), then the author proves that \(Z(d,S)\) is smooth and of the expected dimension. We stress that he proves this statement for a general member of a very thin stratification of the Hilbert scheme of \(\mathbb {P}^2\). For much coarser stratifications (e.g. the full Hilbert scheme), this should be true in \(\mathbb {P}^r\), \(r>2\).











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