Syzygies of Curves in Products of Projective Spaces

Abstract

Motivated by toric geometry, we lift machinery for understanding syzygies of curves in projective space to the setting of products of projective spaces. Using this machinery, we show an analogue of an influential result of Gruson, Peskine, and Lazarsfeld that gives a bound on the regularity of a possibly singular curve given its degree and the dimension of the ambient projective space. To do so, we show new results linking the shape of multigraded resolutions of a sheaf to its regularity region.