Our approach to the computation of the Hilbert-Kunz multiplicity is by using the presenting sequence
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and twists of its -th Frobenius pull-backs, that is
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(where
),
and to relate the asymptotic behavior of
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to the asymptotic behavior of the global sections of the Frobenius pull-backs
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What we want to compute is just the cokernel of the complex of global sections of the above sequence, namely
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The summation over is finite
(but the range depends on ),
and the terms
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are easy to control, so we have to understand the behavior of the global syzygies
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for all
and , at least asymptotically. This is a Frobenius-Riemann-Roch problem
(so far this works for all normal standard-graded domains).
The strategy for this is to use Riemann-Roch to get a formula for and then use semistability properties to show that or are in certain ranges.