arXiv · 2602.05761
Diagonal F-thresholds for determinants and Pfaffians
Abstract
We compute the diagonal F-thresholds of determinantal hypersurfaces arising from a generic matrix and from a generic symmetric matrix, as well as of the Pfaffian hypersurface arising from a generic skew-symmetric matrix of even size. The main ingredient is a cohomology vanishing theorem for certain line bundles on flag varieties in characteristic $p$. In the cases of the generic matrix and the generic skew-symmetric matrix, we show that the diagonal F-threshold attains its minimal possible value, namely the negative of the a-invariant. The symmetric case is more subtle and relies in addition on a polynomiality result for representations afforded by cohomology, building on work of the second author with VandeBogert.
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Barbara Betti, Claudiu Raicu, Francesco Romeo, Jyoti Singh. 2026-02-05. Diagonal F-thresholds for determinants and Pfaffians. https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05761
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