Irreducibility of the Hilbert scheme of smooth curves in P^3 of degree g and genus g

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Abstract: We denote by mathcalHd,g,r the Hilbert scheme of smooth curves, which is the union of components whose general point corresponds to a smooth irreducible and non-degenerate curve of degree d and genus g in PPr. In this note, we show that any non-empty mathcalHg+2,g,4 is irreducible without any restriction on the genus g. Our result augments the irreducibility result obtained earlier by Hristo Iliev(2006), in which several low genus gle10 cases have been left untreated.


This paper gives irreducibility results on Hilbert schemes of space curves. Let \(H_{d,g}\) denote the Hilbert scheme parametrizing smooth connected curves \(C \subset \mathbb P^3\) of degree \(d\) and genus \(g\). Confirming part of a claim of Severi, \textit{L. Ein} showed that \(H_{d,g}\) is irreducible for \(d \geq g+3\) [Ann. Scient. Ec. Norm. Sup. 19, 469--478 (1986; Zbl 0606.14003)]. The authors proved irreducibility of \(H_{d,g}\) for \(d=g+2, g \geq 5\) and \(d=g+1, g \geq 11\) [J. Algebra 145, 240--248 (1992; Zbl 0783.14002)] and \textit{H. Iliev} proved that \(H_{g,g}\) is irreducible for \(g \geq 13\) [Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 134, 2823--2832 (2006; Zbl 1097.14022)]. Here the authors complete Iliev's result, showing that every non-empty \(H_{g,g}\) is irreducible. Noting that \(H_{g,g}\) is empty for \(1 \leq g \leq 7\) and irreducible for \(g=8\) and \(9\) by \textit{K. Dasaratha} [``The reducibility and dimension of Hilbert schemes of complex projective curves, undergraduate thesis, Harvard University, Department of Mathematics, available at \url{http://www.math.harvard.edu/theses/senior/dasaratha/dasaratha}], the authors need only consider \(g \geq 10\). Here they build on the proof of Iliev [loc. cit.], making a careful study of an irreducible component \(\mathcal G\) of the space \(\mathcal G_g^3\) of pairs \((C,D)\) with \(C\) a smooth connected curve and \(D\) a linear series of degree \(g\) and dimension \(3\) whose general element is very ample. The key result here is that \(D\) is in fact a complete linear system of dimension \(4g-15\) and that the general member of the component of the residual series is base point free, complete, and birationally very ample.




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