Free curves on varieties

zbMATH Open1369.14063arXiv1208.4055MaRDI QIDQ288665FDOQ288665

Frank Gounelas

Publication date: 27 May 2016

Published in: Documenta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study various generalisations of rationally connected varieties, allowing the connecting curves to be of higher genus. The main focus will be on free curves $f:CoX$ with large unobstructed deformation space as originally defined by Koll'ar, but we also give definitions and basic properties of varieties $X$ covered by a family of curves of a fixed genus $g$ so that through any two general points of $X$ there passes the image of a curve in the family. We prove that the existence of a free curve of genus $ggeq1$ implies the variety is rationally connected in characteristic zero and initiate a study of the problem in positive characteristic.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.4055

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Rational and unirational varieties (14M20) Rationally connected varieties (14M22)

Cited In (6)

• On the proportion of transverse-free plane curves
• On the exponents of free and nearly free projective plane curves
• Maps from K-trivial varieties and connectedness problems
• Compact fibrations with hyperkähler fibers
• Rational points over complex function fields: remarks on isotriviality and dominatedness
• Algebraicity of foliations on complex projective manifolds, applications

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