Demailly's conjecture on initial degrees of symbolic powers
Let be an algebraically closed field of characteristic . Let be a set of distinct points, and let be the defining homogeneous ideal of . For a homogeneous ideal , write for the least degree of a nonzero homogeneous element of , and write for its th symbolic power. Let be any positive integer.
Demailly's conjecture. For every integer ,
This generalizes Chudnovsky's bound by allowing the right-hand side to use the initial degree of an arbitrary symbolic power. The supplied text attributes the generalization to Demailly and gives no evidence of resolution.
References
Primary source
Arvind Kumar and Vivek Mukundan, “Symbolic Powers of Classical Varieties”, arXiv:2402.18693 (2025).
Additional references
5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2009.05022, arXiv:1811.02051, arXiv:1802.08699, arXiv:1701.04848.
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