Obstructions to deforming curves on a 3-fold. II: Deformations of degenerate curves on a del Pezzo 3-fold (Q1958974)

From the authors' abstract: We study the Hilbert scheme \(\mathrm{Hilb}^{sc}V\) of smooth connected curves on a smooth del Pezzo \(3\)-fold \(V\). We prove that any degenerate curve \(C\), i.e. any curve \(C\) contained in a smooth hyperplane section \(S\) of \(V\), does not deform to a non-degenerate curve if the following two conditions are satisfied: (i) \(\chi(V,\mathcal I_C(S))\geq 1\) and (ii) for every line \(\ell\) on \(S\) such that \(\ell\cap C=\emptyset\), the normal bundle \(N_{\ell/V}\) is trivial (i.e. \(N_{\ell/V}\simeq \mathcal O_{\mathbb{P}^1 }^{\oplus 2}\)). As a consequence, we prove an analogue (for \(\mathrm{Hilb}^{sc}V\)) of a conjecture of J. O. Kleppe, which is concerned with non-reduced components of the Hilbert scheme \(\mathrm{Hilb}^{sc}\mathbb{P}^3\) of curves in the projective \(3\)-space \(\mathbb{P}^3\).