Conics on a general hypersurface in complex projective spaces (Q2872197)

The main result of this paper is the following:NEWLINENEWLINETheorem. Let \(X\) be a general hypersurface of degree \(d\) in \(\mathbb{P}^n\). If \(2d>3n-2\), then the space of smooth conics in \(X\), \(R_2(X)\) is empty. If \(3d\leq 3n-2\), then the space \(R_2(X)\) is smooth of dimension \(3n-2d-2\).NEWLINENEWLINEThe proof follows the same strategy as \textit{J. Kollár} in his book [Rational curves on algebraic varieties. Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete. 3. Folge. 32. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. (1995; Zbl 0877.14012) Chapter V, Theorem 4.3]. Namely, the author studies the universal incidence correspondence of conics in a hypersurface and its projection to the space of hypersurfaces.NEWLINENEWLINENote that \textit{H. R. Zong} has obtained similar results in [Commun. Math. Stat. 2, No. 1, 33--45 (2014; Zbl 1297.14054)].