We study 2-frieze patterns generalizing that of the classical Coxeter-Conway frieze patterns. The geometric realization of this space is the space of -gons (in the projective plane and in 3-dimensional vector space) which is a close relative of the moduli space of genus curves with marked points. We show that the space of 2-frieze patterns is a cluster manifold and study its algebraic and arithmetic properties.
R. Hartshorne and A. Hirschowitz proved that a generic collection of lines on ℙn, n≥3, has bipolynomial Hilbert function. We extend this result to a specialization of the collection of generic lines, by considering a union of lines and 3-dimensional sundials (i.e., a union of schemes obtained by degenerating pairs of skew lines).
Let f = 0 be a plane algebraic curve of degree d > 1 with an isolated singular point at 0 ∈ ℂ2. We show that the Milnor number μ0(f) is less than or equal to (d−1)2 − [d/2], unless f = 0 is a set of d concurrent lines passing through 0, and characterize the curves f = 0 for which μ0(f) = (d−1)2 − [d/2].