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K3Carpets :: carpet

carpet

Synopsis

Description

The routine carpet(a,b,m) interchanges a and b if a>=b is not satisfied and forms two matrices from m: X:the 2 x a matrix that is the first a cols of m; Y:the 2 x b matrix that is the nex b cols of m--that is, cols a..a+b-1 of m; Let Ix, Iy be the ideals of 2 x 2 minors of X and Y. If a,b≥2,the routine returns Ix+Iy+Imixed, where Imixed consists of the quadrics "outside minor - inside minor", that is, det(X{i},Y{j+1})-det(X{i+1}|Y{j}), for each pair of (i,i+1), (j,j+1) in the ranges a1 and a2.

If m is usual ideal of the scroll of type (a,b), then carpet(a,b,m) produces the same ideal (over a different ring) as carpet(a,b). This is the ideal of the 2-dimensional rational normal scroll Scroll(a,b) is the ideal of 2 x 2 minors of X|Y. The ideal I to be constructed is the ideal of the unique (numerically) K3 scheme that is a double structure on the scroll S(a,b).

When a,b > 1, the carpet ideal I is the sum Ix+Iy plus the ideal Imixed

When a = b = 1, I is the square of the det of X|Y.

When a > 1, b=1 (or symmetrically), I is defined as in the case a,b>1, after replacing

Y =

y0
y1

by the 2 x 2 matrix

y02, y0*y1
y0*y1, y12
.

and changing b to 2.

i1 : betti res carpet(2,5)

            0  1  2  3  4  5 6
o1 = total: 1 15 49 70 49 15 1
         0: 1  .  .  .  .  . .
         1: . 15 35 35 14  . .
         2: .  . 14 35 35 15 .
         3: .  .  .  .  .  . 1

o1 : BettiTally
i2 : S = ZZ/101[a..j]

o2 = S

o2 : PolynomialRing
i3 : m = genericMatrix(S,a,2,5)

o3 = | a c e g i |
     | b d f h j |

             2       5
o3 : Matrix S  <--- S
i4 : I = carpet(3,2,m)

o4 = ideal (b*c - a*d, b*e - a*f, d*e - c*f, d*g - c*h - b*i + a*j, f*g - e*h
     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
     - d*i + c*j, h*i - g*j)

o4 : Ideal of S
i5 : L = primaryDecomposition I;
i6 : betti res L_0

            0  1  2  3  4 5
o6 = total: 1 15 40 45 24 5
         0: 1  .  .  .  . .
         1: . 15 40 45 24 5

o6 : BettiTally
i7 : betti res L_1

            0  1  2  3 4
o7 = total: 1 10 20 15 4
         0: 1  .  .  . .
         1: . 10 20 15 4

o7 : BettiTally

The larger block alwas comes first.

i8 : carpet(1,2)

             2            2                2
o8 = ideal (x  - x x , x y  - 2x y y  + x y )
             1    0 2   2 0     1 0 1    0 1

                ZZ
o8 : Ideal of -----[x , x , x , y , y ]
              32003  0   1   2   0   1

Caveat

We require a,b >=1. If a<b then the blocks are reversed, so that the smaller block always comes last. The script generalizeScroll is a more general tool that can do the same things.

See also

  • canonicalCarpet -- Carpet of given genus and Clifford index
  • gorensteinDouble -- attempts to produce a Gorenstein double structure J subset I
  • correspondenceScroll -- Union of planes joining points of rational normal curves according to a given correspondence

Ways to use carpet :

  • carpet(ZZ,ZZ)
  • carpet(ZZ,ZZ,Matrix)