Curves on a double surface

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Authors Scott Nollet, Enrico Schlesinger

Publication date 18 May 2004

Published in Collectanea Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0112168, https://eudml.org/doc/44322

zbMATH Keywords

Hilbert schemesnonreduced surfacesprojective curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametrization (Chow and Hilbert schemes) (14C05) Plane and space curves (14H50)

Abstract: Let F be a smooth surface in a smooth projective threefold T, and let X=2F be the first infinitesimal neighborhood of X in T. A locally Cohen-Macaulay curve C in X gives rise to two effective divisors on F, namely the curve part P of the intersection of C and F, and the curve R residual in C to this intersection. We show that a general deformation of R on F lifts to a deformation of C on X when a certain cohomology group vanishes. In our paper "Hilbert Schemes of Degree Four Curves" we use this result to prove the connectedness of the Hilbert schemes H(4,g) of locally Cohen-Macaulay space curves of degree four and arbitrary arithmetic genus g.

Review text

The aim of this paper is to study deformations of space curves in the Hilbert scheme \(H_{d,g}({\mathbb P}^3)\) of curves of degree \(d\) and genus \(g\). The idea is to study curves on a scheme \(X\) which is given by the double structure on a smooth surface \(F\subset {\mathbb P}^3\) associated to the divisor \(2F\). If \(C\subset X\) is a curve, one can associate to \(C\) the divisor \(P\subset F\) which is the largest divisor contained in \(C\cap F\) and the residual scheme \(R\) to \(C\cap F\) in \(C\). Since \({\mathcal I}_{C\cap F}= {\mathcal I}_P{\mathcal I}_Z\) for some 0-dimensional scheme \(Z\subset F\), to \(C\) is associated the triple \((Z,R,P)\). Let \(H_{z,r,p}(X)\subset H_{d,g}(X)\) be the subscheme parameterizing curves whose triple \((Z,R,P)\) has Hilbert polynomials \(z,r,p\); in the article it is shown that, under some cohomological conditions, for a curve \(C_0 \in H_{d,g}(X)\) a general deformation of its associated triple \((Z,R,P)\) lifts to a deformation \(C \in H_{d,g}(X)\) of \(C_0\). This procedure can be applied to the study of \(H_{d,g}({\mathbb P}^3)\); for example it is shown that ad hoc specializations used to prove results (e.g. connectedness) on this Hilbert schemes can be obtained this way.

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