On the Eisenbud-Green-Harris Conjecture

Abstract

It has been conjectured by Eisenbud, Green and Harris that if $I$ is a homogeneous ideal in $k[x_1,...,x_n]$ containing a regular sequence $f_1,...,f_n$ of degrees $\deg(f_i)=a_i$, where $2\leq a_1\leq ... \leq a_n$, then there is a homogeneous ideal $J$ containing $x_1^{a_1},...,x_n^{a_n}$ with the same Hilbert function. In this paper we prove the Eisenbud-Green-Harris conjecture when $f_i$ splits into linear factors for all $i$.