Construction of Hilbert Schemes

By dunghoangnguyen

We want to parametrize subschemes of projective space \mathbb{P}^n. Naturally, those with same Hilbert polynomial will cluster together, by the result which states that any continuous (flat ) family of closed projective subschemes have constant Hilbert polynomial. Now we will construct the moduli space of all subschemes X with a fixed Hilbert polynomial P. Here is the idea :
The value of the Hilbert polynomial  P at  d will coincide with the dimension of the d-th graded piece of the coordinate ring of X when d is large. Another description of the Hilbert polynomial is the Euler characteristic of the structure sheaf of the scheme X twisted by d, by Serre vanishing theorem ( why?).
The idea is, if we choose  d large enough, then we hope to identify   X with the d-th graded piece of its defining ideal I. So each scheme X can therefore be identified with a subspace of fixed dimension of the space of all monomials of degree  d. Which means that we have a map from our “moduli space” to the Grassmanian G(m,n), and then hope that the image is actually a closed subscheme of the Grassmanian. Fortunately, we can do that, but need a lot of results.
First in order to cut out precisely those  X with Hilbert polynomial  P, we require that the image of the map  V\otimes R_{e-d} in  R_d has dimension  Q(e) = \dim R_e - P(e) for all e \ge d ( the dimension of the  e-th piece of the defining ideal ). That could be consider a linear map of two vector bundles over the Grassmanian. Unfortunately , this is the same as to require the map of vector bundles has constant rank, which is not in general a closed condition. The best that we can do is to require that the rank is alway not mroe than  Q(e). There are three problems we need to solve :
1) As mentioned, this is not a closed condition.
2) We have to do this for infinitely many  e.
3) It is not clear how we can pick  d uniformly, so that the dimension of the graded pieces after  d behave as we expect.
There are two important results that have us resolve this :
Thm 1: We can in fact choose such a  d uniformly.
Thm 2 : (i) We can choose such a  d that for all  V \in Gr(Q(d),R_d), the multiplication by  R_1 map increase the dimension at least 1 ( first test )
(ii) Once any  V has passed the first test, it will pass all the required tests:
 V \otimes R_{e-d} \to R_d has image of dimension at least  Q(e).
Now, with all of the above, to cut out the moduli space, we can just put on the closed condition: the rank of the multiplication maps must not be more than “expected”, i.e.  Q(e) and that would cut out precisely the subschemes  X having Hilbert polynomial  P.

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