Definition of Strongly Stable 0-cycle I am not sure whether this question deserves to be asked in this forum, but I have no other choice as I can't find the definition anywhere. So here is the question:
When is a 0-cycle on $\mathbb P^n$ called strongly stable? 
Mumford's "Lectures on Curves on an Algebraic Surface" contains a printing omission in P-141. 
If anyone knows, please help me out.
 A: Here is what I wrote when the Stony Brook student seminar went through "Lectures on Curves on an Algebraic Surface".
Dear all,
At least in my edition, a critical definition was left off the bottom of p. 141 (probably a printer's mistake).
"An effective zero-cycle $A$ in $\mathbb{P}^n$ is 'strongly stable' if for
every hyperplane $H$, the degree of $A\cap H$ is less than or equal
to the total degree of $A$ divided by $(n+1)$."
If you participated in the GIT seminar a few semesters ago, this definition is related to, but stronger than, that definition of stability for zero-cycles, Def'n. 3.7, p. 73 of "Geometric Invariant Theory, 3rd ed."  At first blush, it looks to me as though the analysis in Prop. 2 of Lecture 20 is very close to the analysis in Chapter 3, Section 2 of "GIT".  I am not sure that helps understand the proofs (the arguments in both places are intricate), but perhaps it helps motivate the strategy.
As I mentioned in my last e-mail, I know of an alternative argument that avoids this analysis of 0-cycles, however it does have its own technical issues.
Best regards,
Jason 
