Unirationality of varieties described by families of projective hypersurfaces (Q6149218)

Summary: Let \(\mathscr{X} \to W\) be a flat family of generically irreducible hypersurfaces of degree \(d \geqslant 2\) in \(\mathbb{P}^n\) with singular locus of dimension \(t\), with \(W\) unirational of dimension \(r\). We prove that if \(n\) is large enough with respect to \(d, r\), and \(t\), then \(\mathscr{X}\) is unirational. This extends results by J. Harris, B. Mazur and R. Pandharipande in [Duke Math. J. 95 (1998), 125--160] and A. Predonzan in [Rend. Sem. Mat. Univ. Padova 31 (1961), 281--293].