Volumes of line bundles as limits on generically nonreduced schemes

Abstract

The volume of a line bundle is defined in terms of a limsup. It is a fundamental question whether this limsup is a limit. It has been shown that this is always the case on generically reduced schemes. We show that volumes are limits in two classes of schemes that are not necessarily generically reduced: codimension one subschemes of projective varieties such that their components of maximal dimension contain normal points and projective schemes whose nilradical squared equals zero.