Surface counterexamples to the Eisenbud-Goto conjecture

Abstract

It is well known that the Eisenbud-Goto regularity conjecture is true for arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay varieties, projective curves, smooth surfaces, smooth threefolds in P 5 \mathbb {P}^5 , and toric varieties of codimension two. After J. McCullough and I. Peeva constructed counterexamples in 2018, it has been an interesting question to find the categories such that the Eisenbud-Goto conjecture holds. So far, surface counterexamples have not been found while counterexamples of any dimension greater or equal to 3 are known.

In this paper, we construct counterexamples to the Eisenbud-Goto conjecture for projective surfaces in P 4 \mathbb {P}^4 and investigate projective invariants, cohomological properties, and geometric properties. The counterexamples are constructed via binomial rational maps between projective spaces.