The Alexander–Hirschowitz property for ample line bundles on smooth projective varieties

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Let XX be a smooth projective variety and let L\cal{L} be an ample line bundle. Say that (X,L)(X,\mathcal{L}) satisfies the Alexander–Hirschowitz property (AH) if, for every positive integer kk, a general collection of double points p1,,pkXp_1,\ldots,p_k\in X imposes independent conditions on L|\mathcal{L}|; equivalently, the linear system of divisors singular at all these points has dimension

max(0,χ(X,Ld)k(dim(X)+1))1.\max\left(0,\chi(X,\mathcal{L}^{\otimes d})-k(\dim(X)+1)\right)-1.

Alexander–Hirschowitz conjecture. Suppose that XX is a smooth projective variety of any dimension and L\mathcal{L} is ample. Then (X,L)(X,\mathcal{L}) satisfies AH.

The paper proves this property for smooth projective surfaces and conjectures the analogous statement in arbitrary dimension. The source notes that a result subsuming both the main theorem and this conjecture had already been proved, so the conjecture is solved.

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Carl Lian, “An asymptotic Alexander-Hirschowitz theorem for surfaces”, arXiv:2011.11069 (2020).

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