Irrational components of the Hilbert scheme of points

Abstract: We construct irrational irreducible components of the Hilbert scheme of points of affine n-dimensional space, for n at least 12. We start with irrational components of the Hilbert scheme of curves in P^3 and use methods developed by Jelisiejew to relate these to irreducible components of the Hilbert schemes of points of A^n. The result solves Problem XX of [J. Jelisiejew, Open problems in deformations of Artinian algebras, Hilbert schemes and around, arXiv:2307.08777, 2023].