Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-2015

Department

Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science

Keywords

algebra

Abstract

We follow the lead of Bocci and Chiantini and show how differences in the invariant alpha can be used to classify certain classes of subschemes of P^3. Specifically, we will seek to classify arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay codimension 2 subschemes of P^3 in the manner Bocci and Chiantini classified points in P^2. The first section will seek to motivate our consideration of the invariant alpha by relating it to the Hilbert function and gamma, following the work of Bocci and Chiantini, and Dumnicki, et. al. The second section will contain our results classifying arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay codimension 2 subschemes of P^3. This work is adapted from the author's Ph.D. dissertation.

Source Publication Title

Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra

Publisher

Elsevier

Volume

219

Issue

4

First Page

1055

DOI

10.1016/j.jpaa.2014.05.033

Included in

Algebra Commons

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