Unexpected hypersurfaces with multiple fat points

DOI10.1016/J.JSC.2020.07.018MaRDI QIDQ820984zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Justyna Szpond

Publication date 29 September 2021

Published in Journal of Symbolic Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04032

zbMATH Keywords

fat pointsFermat-type arrangementslinear systemspostulation problemunexpected hypersurfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ideals and multiplicative ideal theory in commutative rings (13A15) Polynomial rings and ideals; rings of integer-valued polynomials (13F20) Divisors, linear systems, invertible sheaves (14C20) Rational and ruled surfaces (14J26) Configurations and arrangements of linear subspaces (14N20)

Abstract: Starting with the ground-breaking work of Cook II, Harbourne, Migliore and Nagel, there has been a lot of interest in unexpected hypersurfaces. In the last couple of months a considerable number of new examples and new phenomena has been observed and reported on. All examples studied so far had just one fat point. In this note we introduce a new series of examples, which establishes for the first time the existence of unexpected hypersurfaces with multiple fat points. The key underlying idea is to study Fermat-type configurations of points in projective spaces.

Review text

In the paper under review, the author provides a new example of an unexpected hypersurface with multiple fat points. We say that a reduced set of points \(Z \subset \mathbb{P}^{N}\) admits an unexpected hypersurface of degree \(d\) for multiplicities \(m_{1}, \dots, m_{s}\), if for general points \(P_{1}, \dots, P_{s}\) the zero dimensional subscheme \(m_{1}P_{1} +...+m_{s}P_{s}\) fails to impose the expected number of conditions on forms of degree \(d\) vanishing along \(Z\). One of the main problems related to this subject can be formulated as follows. Problem. Does there exist a non-empty set \(Z\) in some \(\mathbb{P}^{N}\) which admits an unexpected hypersurface with at least \(2\) general fat points? The main result of the paper under review tells us that in \(\mathbb{P}^{5}\) there exists a non-empty set \(Z\) which admits an unexpected hypersurface of degree \(4\) for multiplicities \(3\) and \(2\), and this hypersurface has only isolated singularities. The set \(Z\) of points is constructed with the use of a certain Fermat configuration of points.

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