We find two basis of the spaces of rational homology of the Hilbert scheme of points in an algebraic surface, by exhibiting two candidates having as cardinalities the known Betti numbers of this scheme and showing that both intersect in a matrix of nonzero determinant.
The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we give an upper bound on the order of a multisecant line to an integral arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay subscheme in Pn of codimension two in terms of the Hilbert function. Secondly, we give an explicit description of the singular locus of the blow up of an arbitrary local ring at a complete intersection ideal. This description is used to refine a standard linking theorem. These results are tied together by the construction of sharp examples for the bound,...
In this work we compute the Chen–Ruan cohomology of the moduli spaces of smooth and stable -pointed curves of genus . In the first part of the paper we study and describe stack theoretically the twisted sectors of and . In the second part, we study the orbifold intersection theory of . We suggest a definition for an orbifold tautological ring in genus , which is a subring of both the Chen–Ruan cohomology and of the stringy Chow ring.