Remarks on Type III Unprojection.

Type III unprojection plays a very important role in the birational geometry of Fano threefolds (cf. Corti et al., 2000; Reid, 2000). According to Reid (2000, p. 43), it was first introduced by A. Corti on his calculations of Fano threefolds of genus 6 and 7. It seems that at present a general definition of Type III unprojection is still missing. After proving some general facts about residual ideals in Section 2, we propose a definition for the generic Type III unprojection (Definition 3.3), and prove in Theorem 3.5 that it gives a Gorenstein ring. Communicated by W. Bruns [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]