On the arithmetical rank of certain segre embeddings

Varbaro, Matteo

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-2012-05435-3

On the arithmetical rank of certain segre embeddings
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Abstract:

We study the number of (set-theoretically) defining equations of Segre products of projective spaces times certain projective hypersurfaces, extending results by Singh and Walther. Meanwhile, we prove some results about the cohomological dimension of certain schemes. In particular, we solve a conjecture of Lyubeznik about an inequality involving the cohomological dimension and the étale cohomological dimension of a scheme, in the characteristic-zero-case and under a smoothness assumption. Furthermore, we show that a relationship between depth and cohomological dimension discovered by Peskine and Szpiro in positive characteristic also holds true in characteristic-zero up to dimension three.

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