On the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of products of ideal sheaves

Abstract

In this paper we give bounds on the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of products of ideals and ideal sheaves. In particular, we show that the regularity of a product of ideals is bounded by the sum of the regularities of its factors if the corresponding schemes intersect in a finite set of points. We also show how approximations of sheaves can be used to bound the regularity of an arrangement of two-planes in projective space.

9 pages, Minor additions to introduction, references added, typos corrected, minor change in exposition of main theorem