The Hilbert schemes of locally Cohen-Macaulay curves in P^3 may after all be connected

DOI10.1007/S13348-012-0062-3zbMATH Open1282.14009arXiv1110.2611OpenAlexW2073508963MaRDI QIDQ379974FDOQ379974

Authors: Paolo Lella, Enrico Schlesinger 

Publication date: 11 November 2013

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

Abstract: Progress on the problem whether the Hilbert schemes of locally Cohen-Macaulay curves in projective 3 space are connected has been hampered by the lack of an answer to a question that was raised by Robin Hartshorne in his paper "On the connectedness of the Hilbert scheme of curves in projective 3 space" Comm. Algebra 28 (2000) and more recently in the open problems list of the 2010 AIM workshop Components of Hilbert Schemes available at http://aimpl.org/hilbertschemes: does there exist a flat irreducible family of curves whose general member is a union of d disjoint lines on a smooth quadric surface and whose special member is a locally Cohen-Macaulay curve in a double plane? In this paper we give a positive answer to this question: for every d, we construct a family with the required properties, whose special fiber is an extremal curve in the sense of Martin-Deschamps and Perrin. From this we conclude that every effective divisor in a smooth quadric surface is in the connected component of its Hilbert scheme that contains extremal curves.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2611

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zbMATH Keywords

initial idealHilbert schemeweight vectorlocally Cohen-Macaulay curveGröbner basis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gröbner bases; other bases for ideals and modules (e.g., Janet and border bases) (13P10) Parametrization (Chow and Hilbert schemes) (14C05) Formal methods and deformations in algebraic geometry (14D15) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Plane and space curves (14H50) Varieties defined by ring conditions (factorial, Cohen-Macaulay, seminormal) (14M05)

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