Are minimal degree rational curves determined by their tangent vectors?

DOI10.5802/AIF.2010zbMATH Open1067.14023arXivmath/0206193OpenAlexW2272391575MaRDI QIDQ1890147FDOQ1890147

Authors: Stefan Kebekus, Sándor J. Kovács 

Publication date: 20 December 2004

Published in: Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let X be a projective variety which is covered by rational curves, for instance a Fano manifold over the complex numbers. In this setup, characterization and classification problems lead to the natural question: "Given two points on X, how many minimal degree rational curve are there which contain those points?". A recent answer to this question led to a number of new results in classification theory. As an infinitesimal analogue, we ask "How many minimal degree rational curves exist which contain a prescribed tangent vector?" In this paper, we give sufficient conditions which guarantee that every tangent vector at a general point of X is contained in at most one rational curve minimal degree. As an immediate application, we obtain irreducibility criteria for the space of minimal rational curves.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0206193

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zbMATH Keywords

Fano manifolddubbiesrational curve of minimal degree

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fano varieties (14J45) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus (14H45)

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