A note on rational curves on general Fano hypersurfaces

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1567735281MaRDI QIDQ2286441zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dennis Tseng

Publication date 22 January 2020

Published in Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.09740

zbMATH Keywords

hypersurfaceKontsevich spacerational curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Fano varieties (14J45) Hypersurfaces and algebraic geometry (14J70) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35)

Abstract: We show the Kontsevich space of rational curves of degree at most roughly $frac2-sqrt22n$ on a general hypersurface $Xsubsetmathbb{P}^n$ of degree $n-1$ is equidimensional of expected dimension and has two components: one consisting generically of smooth, embedded rational curves and the other consisting of multiple covers of a line. This proves more cases of a conjecture of Coskun, Harris, and Starr and shows the Gromov-Witten invariants in these cases are enumerative.

Review text

The paper addresses a conjecture of \textit{I. Coskun} and \textit{J. Starr} [Int. Math. Res. Not. 2009, No. 24, 4626--4641 (2009; Zbl 1200.14051)] which says theat for a general hypersurface \(X_{P}^n\) with \(n\geq 4\) and degree \(d\leq n\), the space parametrizing smooth rational curves of degree \(e\) is irreducible of dimension \(e(n+1-d)+n-4\) and if \(d\leq n-1\), the evaluation map \(\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{0,1}(X,e)\to X\) is flat. The author proves the the flatness of the above map when \(e<n-\frac{1+\sqrt{n^2-n-15}}{2}\) and \(\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{0,0}(X,e)\) has two components, one with generic member smooth rational curve and the the other consisting of \(\deg e\) covers of a line.

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