Syzygies of the secant variety of a curve

Jessica Sidman, Peter Vermeire

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Abstract

We show the secant variety of a linearly normal smooth curve of degree at least 2g + 3 is arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay, and we use this information to study the graded Betti numbers of the secant variety.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)445-465
Number of pages21
JournalAlgebra and Number Theory
Volume3
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009

Keywords

  • Graded Betti numbers
  • Projective curves
  • Secant varieties
  • Syzygies

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