Components of Gröbner strata in the Hilbert scheme of points

Abstract: We fix the lexicographic order $\prec$ on the polynomial ring $S=k[x_{1},...,x_{n}]$ over a ring $k$. We define $\Hi^{\prec\Delta}_{S/k}$, the moduli space of reduced Gr\"obner bases with a given finite standard set $\Delta$, and its open subscheme $\Hi^{\prec\Delta,\et}_{S/k}$, the moduli space of families of $#\Delta$ points whose attached ideal has the standard set $\Delta$. We determine the number of irreducible and connected components of the latter scheme; we show that it is equidimensional over ${\rm Spec}\,k$; and we determine its relative dimension over ${\rm Spec} k$. We show that analogous statements do not hold for the scheme $\Hi^{\prec\Delta}_{S/k}$. Our results prove a version of a conjecture by Bernd Sturmfels.