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Syzygies of the secant variety of a curve

Jessica Sidman and Peter Vermeire
Vol. 3 (2009), No. 4, 445–465
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.
Keywords

syzygies, secant varieties, projective curves, graded Betti numbers
Mathematical Subject Classification

Primary: 13D02

Secondary: 14N05, 14H99, 14F05
Milestones

Received: 1 September 2008
Revised: 1 April 2009
Accepted: 29 April 2009
Authors
Jessica Sidman
Mount Holyoke College
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
415A Clapp Lab
South Hadley, MA 01075
United States
Peter Vermeire
Central Michigan University
Department of Mathematics
214 Pearce
Mount Pleasant, MI 48859
United States