On completely decomposable defining equations of points in general position in $\mathbb{P}^n$

Abstract

The study of the defining equations of a finite set $Γ\subset \mathbb{P}^n$ in linearly general position has been actively attracted since it plays a significant role in understanding the defining equations of arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay varieties. In \cite{T}, R. Treger proved that $I(Γ)$ is generated by forms of degree $\leq \lceil \frac{|Γ|}{n}\rceil$. Since then, Treger's result have been extended and improved in several papers. The aim of this paper is to reprove and improve the above Treger's result from a new perspective. Our main result in this paper shows that $I(Γ)$ is generated by the union of $I(Γ)_{\leq \lceil \frac{|Γ|}{n}\rceil -1}$ and the set of all completely decomposable forms of degree $\lceil \frac{|Γ|}{n}\rceil$ in $I(Γ)$. In particular, it holds that if $d \leq 2n$ then $I(Γ)$ is generated by quadratic equations of rank $2$. This reproves Saint-Donat's results in \cite{SD1} and \cite{SD2}.