The linear-general-position projection conjecture

Let ZP3Z\subset\mathbb P^3 be a set of at least 55 points in linear general position, meaning that no 33 points of ZZ are collinear and no 44 points are coplanar. Projection conjecture. The general projection of ZZ to a plane is not a complete intersection. This conjecture asserts that complete-intersection projections are necessarily associated with special linear configurations, such as grids, rather than sets in linear general position. The source provides motivation from its analysis of grids and proves the corresponding classification for non-degenerate sets of 99 points whose general projection is a complete intersection of cubics, but does not state a resolution of the conjecture.

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Luca Chiantini and Juan Migliore, “Sets of points which project to complete intersections”, arXiv:1904.02047 (2020).

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