We study the lowest dimensional open case of the question whether every arithmetically Cohen–Macaulay subscheme of is glicci, that is, whether every zero-scheme in is glicci. We show that a general set of points in admits no strictly descending Gorenstein liaison or biliaison. In order to prove this theorem, we establish a number of important results about arithmetically Gorenstein zero-schemes in .
Alexander and Hirschowitz determined the Hilbert function of a generic union of fat points in a projective space when the number of fat points is much bigger than the greatest multiplicity of the fat points. Their method is based on a lemma which determines the limit of a linear system depending on fat points approaching a divisor.Other Hilbert functions were computed previously by Nagata. In connection with his counter-example to Hilbert’s fourteenth problem, Nagata determined the Hilbert function...
Nous démontrons un lemme permettant d’étudier l’irréductibilité et la lissité (hors des singularités prescrites) de la courbe plane générique de degré passant par points génériques avec des multiplicités fixées par avance. Ce lemme repose sur la “méthode d’Horace”, introduite par A. Hirschowitz. Il est appliqué ici à l’étude des courbes de genre inférieur ou égal à .
Let F be a smooth projective surface contained in a smooth threefold T, and let X be the scheme corresponding to the divisor 2F on T. A locally Cohen-Macaulay curve C included in X gives rise to two effective divisors on F, namely the largest divisor P contained in C intersection F and the curve R residual to C intersection F in C. We show that under suitable hypotheses a general deformation of R and P lifts to a deformation of C on X, and give applications to the study of Hilbert schemes of locally...
For the general ruled cubic surface S (with a double line) in P3 = P3 sub k, k any algebraically closed field, we find necessary conditions for which curves on S can be the specialization of a flat family of curves on smooth cubics. In particular, no smooth curve of degree > 10 on S is such a specialization.
We associate to every curve on a smooth quadric a polynomial equation that defines it as a divisor; this polynomial is defined through a matrix. In this way we can study several properties of these curves; in particular we can give a geometrical meaning to the rank of the matrix which defines the curve.
In this paper we study the notions of finite turn of a curve and finite turn of tangents of a curve. We generalize the theory (previously developed by Alexandrov, Pogorelov, and Reshetnyak) of angular turn in Euclidean spaces to curves with values in arbitrary Banach spaces. In particular, we manage to prove the equality of angular turn and angular turn of tangents in Hilbert spaces. One of the implications was only proved in the finite dimensional context previously, and equivalence of finiteness...
We develop a new method of proving non-speciality of a linear system with base fat points in general position. Using this method we show that the Hirschowitz-Harbourne conjecture holds for systems with base points of equal multiplicity bounded by 42.