Hierarchical structure of graded Betti numbers in the quadratic strand
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| author | Han, Jong In Kwak, Sijong Lee, Wanseok |
| author_facet | Han, Jong In Kwak, Sijong Lee, Wanseok |
| contents | The classical results, initiated by Castelnuovo and Fano and later refined by Eisenbud and Harris, provide several upper bounds on the number of quadrics defining a nondegenerate projective variety. Recently, it has been revealed that these bounds extend naturally to certain linear syzygies, suggesting the presence of a hierarchical structure governing the quadratic strand of graded Betti numbers.
In this article, we establish such a hierarchy in full generality. We first prove sharp upper bounds for $β_{p,1}(X)$ depending on the degree of a projective variety $X$, extending the classical quadratic bounds to all linear syzygies and identifying the extremal varieties in each range. We then introduce geometric conditions that describe how containment of $X$ in low-degree varieties influences syzygies, and we show that these conditions stratify the quadratic strand into a finite sequence of hierarchies. This leads to a complete description of all possible extremal behavior. We also prove a generalized $K_{p,1}$-theorem, demonstrating that the vanishing of $β_{p,1}(X)$ detects containment in a variety of minimal degree at each hierarchy. |
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| spellingShingle | Hierarchical structure of graded Betti numbers in the quadratic strand Han, Jong In Kwak, Sijong Lee, Wanseok Algebraic Geometry Commutative Algebra 14N05, 13D02 The classical results, initiated by Castelnuovo and Fano and later refined by Eisenbud and Harris, provide several upper bounds on the number of quadrics defining a nondegenerate projective variety. Recently, it has been revealed that these bounds extend naturally to certain linear syzygies, suggesting the presence of a hierarchical structure governing the quadratic strand of graded Betti numbers. In this article, we establish such a hierarchy in full generality. We first prove sharp upper bounds for $β_{p,1}(X)$ depending on the degree of a projective variety $X$, extending the classical quadratic bounds to all linear syzygies and identifying the extremal varieties in each range. We then introduce geometric conditions that describe how containment of $X$ in low-degree varieties influences syzygies, and we show that these conditions stratify the quadratic strand into a finite sequence of hierarchies. This leads to a complete description of all possible extremal behavior. We also prove a generalized $K_{p,1}$-theorem, demonstrating that the vanishing of $β_{p,1}(X)$ detects containment in a variety of minimal degree at each hierarchy. |
| title | Hierarchical structure of graded Betti numbers in the quadratic strand |
| topic | Algebraic Geometry Commutative Algebra 14N05, 13D02 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14454 |