Rationally generated arcs

DOI10.1007/S00022-008-2020-5MaRDI QIDQ1021318zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zachary Treisman

Publication date 8 June 2009

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610134

zbMATH Keywords

arc spacecubic surfacerationally connectedunirational

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinitesimal methods in algebraic geometry (14B10) Rationality questions in algebraic geometry (14E08)

Abstract: One distinguishing feature of rational curves is that they have algebraic parameterizations. Arc spaces are a way of describing approximations to parameterizations of all curves in some fixed space. Playing on these descriptions, this paper introduces rationally generated arcs, and applies them towards the description and enumeration of rational curves in algebraic varieties.

Review text

This paper defines the notion ``\(X\) has generically rationally generated arcs as, roughly speaking, ``for a general point of \(X\) every arc passing through the point comes from a rational curve. Then the author proved the relation among this property, the unirationality and the rational connectedness. Then, for a generic complete intersection subscheme in the projective space, the class of the locus of 1-arcs which come from lines is explicitly described in the intersection ring of the projectivized tangent space of the projective space. The paper also provides with the bounds of the number of lines passing through a general point of a projective variety.

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