Un contre-exemple sur les families de courbes gauches (Q2707906)

This paper inserts in a program (well specified in the introduction) for the classification of space curves à la Halphen: Roughly speaking it consists in approaching the study of the different components of the Hilbert scheme \(H_{d,g}\) by means of the study of the so-called composants (i.e. components of subschemes with constant cohomology) of \(H_{d,g}\) via the determination of the incidence of every pair of such composants. Since the composants contribute to stratify \(H_{d,g}\), this program follows the general philosophy proposed by \textit{M. Martin-Deschamps} and \textit{D. Perrin} [``Sur la classification des courbes gauches'', Astérisque, 184-185 (1990; Zbl 0717.14017)]. The authors discuss in particular a condition of semi-continuity between two composants \(X\) and \(X_0\) (i.e., the cohomology of curves in \(X\) is less than the cohomology in \(X_0)\) in relation to the incidence problem and gives a (counter)example of two composants \(X\) and \(X_0\) of the Hilbert scheme of space curves verifying the condition of semi-continuity, but not the property \(X_0\cap\overline X\neq \emptyset\).