On the Hilbert scheme of linearly normal curves in \(\mathbb{P}^r\) with small index of speciality (Q2166111)

For all integers \(r\ge 3\), \(d\ge r\), \(g\ge 0\) Let \(\mathcal{H}^{L}_{d,g,r}\) denote the union of the irreducible component Hilbert scheme of \(\mathbb {P}^r\) whose general element is a smooth, connected and linearly normal curve \(C\) with degree \(d\) and genus \(g\) (over an algebraically closed field with characteristic zero). The paper always works in the Brill-Noether range \(\rho(d,g,r) =g-(r+1)(g-d+r)\ge 0\). Since \(C\) is linearly normal, \(h^1(C,\mathcal{O}_C(1)) =g-d+r\). In this range the wide-open Modified Assertion of Severi asks if \(\mathcal{H}^{L}_{d,g,r}\). The author had previously solved the cases \(g-d+r\le 3\). In the paper under review the author studies the case \(g-d+r=4\). He proves the existence part (with a few exceptions) and the irreducibility part for \(3\le r\le 8\). For the latter part he construct explicit families on certain surfaces.