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Publications and source records attributed to Ivan Petrakiev.
We prove: if $d/m < 2280/721$, there is no curve of degree $d$ passing through $n = 10$ general points with multiplicity $m$ in $\bf{P}^2$. Similar results are given for other special values of $n$. Our bounds can be naturally written as certain palindromic continued fractions.
We consider the problem of bounding the dimension of the linear system of curves in ${\bf P}^2$ of degree $d$ with prescribed multiplicities $m_1,...,m_n$ at $n$ general points (\cite{Hir1},\cite{Hir2}). We propose a new method, based on the work of Ciliberto and Miranda (\cite {CM1}, \cite {CM2}), by specializing the general points to an elliptic curve in ${\bf P}^2$.
We establish the first previously unknown case of the Eisenbud-Harris conjecture in Castelnuovo theory concerning algebraic curves of high genus in ${\bf P}^n$. The problem is reduced to a question about zero-dimensional schemes $Γ\subset {\bf P}^{n-1}$ in symmetric position with certain constrains on the Hilbert function. The method of Gröbner bases is then applied to study the homogeneous ideal of $Γ$.
We study moduli of ``self-associated'' sets of points in ${\bf P}^n$ for small $n$. In particular, we show that for $n=5$ a general such set arises as a hyperplane section of the Lagrangean Grassmanian $LG(5,10) \subset {\bf P}^{15}$ (this was conjectured by Eisenbud-Popescu in {\it Geometry of the Gale transform}, J. Algebra 230); for $n=6$, a general such set arises as a hyperplane section of the Grassmanian $G(2,6) \subset {\bf P}^{14}$. We also make a conjecture for the next case $n=7$. Our results are analogues of Mukai's characterization of general canonically embedded curves in ${\bf P}^6$ and ${\bf P}^7$, resp.