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genera(Ideal) -- list of the successive linear sectional arithmetic genera

Synopsis

Description

Computes the list of successive linear sectional arithmetic genera, where the i-th entry in the list is the arithmetic genus of the i-th successive generic hyperplane section of the zero-locus of I (= (-1)^dim-lin-section * (chi(OO_lin-section) - 1)).

A complete intersection of type (2,3) in projective fourspace; its hyperplane section is a canonical curve of genus 4:

i1 : R = ZZ/101[x_0..x_4];
i2 : I = ideal random(R^1, R^{-2,-3});

o2 : Ideal of R
i3 : genera I

o3 = {1, 4, 5}

o3 : List

See also

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