The secant-variety regularity and projective-normality conjecture for embedded curves

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Work over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 00. Let CPnC\subset\mathbb{P}^n be a linearly normal embedding of a smooth curve of genus gg by a line bundle LL, and let Σk\Sigma_k denote its kkth secant variety. If

c1(L)2g+1+2k,k0,\operatorname{c}_1(L)\geq 2g+1+2k,\qquad k\geq0,

then the secant-variety regularity and projective-normality conjecture. The ideal sheaf IΣk\mathcal I_{\Sigma_k} is (2k+3)(2k+3)-regular and Σk\Sigma_k is projectively normal.

This extends the established regularity result for the first secant variety and is suggested by the hypersurface degree of the secant variety of an elliptic normal curve. The assertion is presented as a conjecture, and no resolution is given in the source.

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Peter Vermeire, “Regularity and Normality of the Secant Variety to a Projective Curve”, arXiv:math/0610081 (2007).

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