Doubling rational normal curves

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Abstract: In this paper, we study double structures supported on rational normal curves. After recalling the general construction of double structures supported on a smooth curve described in cite{fer}, we specialize it to double structures on rational normal curves. To every double structure we associate a triple of integers (2r,g,n) where r is the degree of the support, ngeqr is the dimension of the projective space containing the double curve, and g is the arithmetic genus of the double curve. We compute also some numerical invariants of the constructed curves, and we show that the family of double structures with a given triple (2r,g,n) is irreducible. Furthermore, we prove that the general double curve in the families associated to (2r,r+1,r) and (2r,1,2r−1) is arithmetically Gorenstein. Finally, we prove that the closure of the locus containing double conics of genus gleq−2 form an irreducible component of the corresponding Hilbert scheme, and that the general double conic is a smooth point of that component. Moreover, we prove that the general double conic in mathbbP3 of arbitrary genus is a smooth point of the corresponding Hilbert scheme.












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