Extremal behavior in sectional matrices

Abstract

In this paper, we recall the object sectional matrix which encodes the Hilbert functions of successive hyperplane sections of a homogeneous ideal. We translate and/or reprove recent results in this language. Moreover, some new results are shown about their maximal growth, in particular, a new generalization of Gotzmann’s Persistence Theorem, the presence of a GCD for a truncation of the ideal, and applications to saturated ideals.