Some results on rational surfaces and Fano varieties.

Abstract

The goal of this article is to study the equations and syzygies of embeddings of rational surfaces and certain Fano varieties. Given a rational surface X and an ample and base-point-free line bundle L on X, we give an optimal numerical criterion for L to satisfy property N-p. This criterion turns out to be a characterization of property N-p if X is anticanonical. We also prove syzygy results for adjunction bundles and a Reider type theorem for higher syzygies