• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.56 no.3
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• pp.751-766
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• 2019

In these notes we introduce a numerical function which allows us to describe explicitly (and nonrecursively) the Betti numbers, and hence, the Hilbert function of a set Z of three fat points whose support is an almost complete intersection (ACI) in ${\mathbb{P}}^1{\times}{\mathbb{P}}^1$. A nonrecursively formula for the Betti numbers and the Hilbert function of these configurations is hard to give even for the corresponding set of five points on a special support in ${\mathbb{P}}^2$ and we did not find any kind of this result in the literature. Moreover, we also give a criterion that allows us to characterize the Hilbert functions of these special set of fat points.