More elementary components of the Hilbert scheme of points · arXivDesk
2102.00494Jan 31, 202129 pages, ancillary Mathematica files accompany submission. This revision is in response to referee comments: the construction of modifications is generalized and simplified, leading to more (and more general) examples of elementary components, and a new final section describes a plausibility test that suggests the existence of a large number of additional examples
More elementary components of the Hilbert scheme of points
Let K be an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0, and let Hμ denote the Hilbert scheme of μ points of the affine space An
Nearby in the stack
. An elementary component
E
of
Hμ
is an irreducible component such that every
K
-point
[I]
∈
E
represents a length-
μ
closed subscheme Spec
(K[x1,…,xn]/I)
⊆
An
that is supported at one point. In a previous article we found some new examples of elementary components; in this article, we simplify the methods and extend the range of the previous paper to find several more examples. In addition, we present a "plausibility test" that suggests the existence of a vast number of similar examples.