Nonuniruledness results for spaces of rational curves in hypersurfaces (Q442448)

The author considers the space of smooth rational curves in a smooth hypersurface of degree \(d\) in the projective space \({\mathbb P}^n\) over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero and proves that the sweeping components of this space are not uniruled if \((n+1)/2\leqslant d\leqslant n-3\). It is also proved that, for any \(e\), the space of smooth rational curves of degree \(e\) in a general hypersurface of degree \(d\) in \({\mathbb P}^n\) is not uniruled roughly when \(d\geqslant e\sqrt n\).