Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Citation:
Serdica Mathematical Journal, Vol. 23, No 2, (1997), 131p-142p
Abstract:
We introduce and study a likely condition that implies the
following form of Clemens’ conjecture in degrees d between 10 and 24: given
a general quintic threefold F in complex P^4, the Hilbert scheme of rational,
smooth and irreducible curves C of degree d on F is finite, nonempty, and
reduced; moreover, each C is embedded in F with balanced normal sheaf
O(−1) ⊕ O(−1), and in P^4 with maximal rank.
Description:
1 Supported in part by the Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities. It
is a pleasure for this author to thank the Department of Mathematics of the University of Sofia
for organizing the remarkable conference in Zlatograd during the period August 28-September
2, 1995. It is also a pleasure to thank the M.I.T. Department of Mathematics for its hospitality
from January 1 to July 31, 1993, when this work was started.
2Supported in part by NSF grant 9400918-DMS.