Lower-bound conjecture for the Waldschmidt constant of fat point schemes

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Let Z⊂PNZ\subset {\mathbb{P}}^N be a fat point scheme. For a homogeneous ideal JJ, write α(J)\alpha(J) for its least nonzero degree, and write α^(I(Z))\widehat{\alpha}(I(Z)) for the Waldschmidt constant of I(Z)I(Z). Waldschmidt-constant lower-bound conjecture. For every integer m≥1m\geq 1, one should have

α^(I(Z))≥α(I(mZ))+N−1m+N−1.\widehat{\alpha}(I(Z))\geq \frac{\alpha(I(mZ))+N-1}{m+N-1}.

The paper explains that this inequality would follow from a proposed refinement of the Harbourne–Huneke containment, but the inequality itself is presented as a conjectural consequence and remains open in the stated generality.

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Brian Harbourne, Jake Kettinger and Frank Zimmitti, “Extreme values of the resurgence for homogeneous ideals in polynomial rings”, arXiv:2005.05282 (2020).

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