Families of space curves with large cohomology

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2006.09.021MaRDI QIDQ865481zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors N. Chiarli, S. Greco, Uwe Nagel

Publication date 14 February 2007

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0512298

zbMATH Keywords

double planeHartshorne-Rao moduleHilbert schemelocally Cohen-Macaulay curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametrization (Chow and Hilbert schemes) (14C05) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Plane and space curves (14H50)

Abstract: We investigate space curves with large cohomology. To this end we introduce curves of subextremal type. This class includes all subextremal curves. Based on geometric and numerical characterizations of curves of subextremal type, we show that, if the cohomology is ``not too small, then they can be parameterized by the union of two generically smooth irreducible families; one of them corresponds to the subextremal curves. For curves of negative genus, the general curve of each of these families is also a smooth point of the support of an irreducible component of the Hilbert scheme. The two components have the same (large) dimension and meet in a subscheme of codimension one.

Review text

A space curve is a locally Cohen-Macaulay closed subscheme of \(\mathbb {P}^3\) of pure dimension \(1\). Fix the degree \(d\) and the arithmetic genus \(g\). Long time ago there was the classification of all curves \(C\) which maximize the Rao function \(h^1(I_C(j))\) for all \(j\in \mathbb {Z}\), called the extremal one. Known were also the subextremal curves \(C\) which maximize \(h^1(I_C(j))\) among the remaining curves for all integers \(j\). The authors point out that among among the remaining curves none maximizes all \(h^1(I_C(j))\). Here they study the ones (called of subextremal type) which have the same Rao function as the subextremal for \(j=1,\dots ,d-3\). It is proved that each curve of subextremal type is contained in a unique quadric which is either reducible or a double plain. The authors show that curves of subextremal type are parametrized by two irreducible families of the same dimension (one corresponding to subextremal curves, the other one formed by curves in a double plane) and the intersection of these families has codimension \(1\) in both. If \(g<0\) they prove that the closure of each family in the Hilbert scheme \(H_{d,g}\) is a generically smooth component of \(H_{d,g}\).

Recommendations

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 890828
• Complete families of smooth space curves and strong semistability
• Characterizations of spaces curves containing a planar subcurve
• Irreducible families of curves with fixed cohomology
• On space curves with good cohomological properties

Cites work

• Algebraic Families on an Algebraic Surface
• Curves in the double plane
• Even liaison classes generated by Gorenstein linkage
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3124420 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 48790 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 559112 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 890828 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 913118 (Why is no real title available?)
• Introduction to liaison theory and deficiency modules
• Le problème de Brill-Noether pour les idéaux de ${P}\sp 2$
• Le schéma de Hilbert des courbes gauches localement Cohen-Macaulay n'est (presque) jamais réduit
• Normal form for space curves in a double plane
• On the genus and Hartshorne-Rao module of projective curves
• On the spectrum of certain subschemes of \(\mathbb{P}^N\)
• Subextremal curves
• Surfaces in \({\mathbb P}^4\) with extremal general hyperplane section.
• When does a projective curve contain a planar subcurve?

Cited in

(7)

• Closed families of smooth space curves
• Irreducible families of curves with fixed cohomology
• On space curves with good cohomological properties
• Hilbert Schemes of Degree Four Curves
• When the positivity of the \(h\)-vector implies the Cohen-Macaulay property
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 890828 (Why is no real title available?)
• Characterizations of spaces curves containing a planar subcurve

This page was built for publication: Families of space curves with large cohomology

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q865481)