$N_6$ property for third Veronese embeddings

Abstract

The rational homology groups of the matching complexes are closely related to the syzygies of the Veronese embeddings. In this paper we will prove the vanishing of certain rational homology groups of matching complexes, thus proving that the third Veronese embeddings satisfy the property $N_6$. This settles the Ottaviani-Paoletti conjecture for third Veronese embeddings. This result is optimal since $\nu_3(\PP^n)$ does not satisfy the property $N_7$ for $n\ge 2$ as shown by Ottaviani-Paoletti in \cite{OP}.