Dimension counts for cuspidal rational curves via semigroups

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Abstract: We study singular rational curves in projective space, deducing conditions on their parametrizations from the value semigroups sss of their singularities. In particular, we prove that a natural heuristic for the codimension of the space of nondegenerate rational curves of arithmetic genus g>0 and degree d in mbPn, viewed as a subspace of all degree-d rational curves in mbPn, holds whenever g is small. On the other hand, we show that this heuristic fails in general, by exhibiting an infinite family of examples of Severi-type varieties of rational curves containing "excess" components of dimension strictly larger than the space of g-nodal rational curves.



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