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Twenty Points in P^3

Presenter
December 6, 2012
Keywords:
  • commutative algebra
  • algebraic combinatorics
  • Stanley-Reisner rings
  • Gorenstein rings
  • equivalence relations
  • codimension
  • curves in P^3
  • glicci
  • complete intersections
  • Hilbert scheme
  • Rao invariant
  • computational commutative algebra
  • Macaulay2
MSC:
  • 05-XX
  • 05EXX
  • 05E15
  • 05E40
  • 16E65
  • 16E05
  • 13Pxx
  • 13P20
Abstract
Ideals I, J ⊂ k[x_0,...,x_n] are directly Gorenstein linked if there is a Gorenstein ideal K ⊂ I ∩ J such that K:I = J and K:J = I. The equivalence relation - Gorenstein linkage - generated by such direct linkages turns out to be very useful for the studying curves in P^3, but its significance is still not at all clear in codimension > 2. In 2001 Hartshorne proposed the problem of determining whether the ideal of a set of 20 general points in P^3 is Gorenstein-linked to a complete intersection. In November, Hartshorne, Schreyer and I were able to determine the graph of all direct Gorenstein linkages between general sets of points in P^3. Computer algebra, used in a somewhat novel way, plays an essential role in the proof. I will describe the background of the theory and explain some of the ideas of the proof.
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