Regularity and symbolic defect of points on rational normal curves

Abstract

In this paper we study ideals of points lying on rational normal curves defined in projective plane and projective 3-space. We give an explicit formula for the value of Castelnuovo–Mumford regularity for their ordinary powers. Moreover, we compare the m-th symbolic and ordinary powers for such ideals in order to show whenever the m-th symbolic defect is non-zero.