{ "id": "1703.07516", "version": "v1", "published": "2017-03-22T04:35:35.000Z", "updated": "2017-03-22T04:35:35.000Z", "title": "Irreducibility of the Hilbert scheme of smooth curves in $\\Bbb P^4$ of degree $g+2$ and genus $g$", "authors": [ "Changho Keem", "Yun-Hwan Kim" ], "comment": "Any critical comments are welcome", "categories": [ "math.AG" ], "abstract": "We denote by $\\mathcal{H}_{d,g,r}$ the Hilbert scheme of smooth curves, which is the union of components whose general point corresponds to a smooth irreducible and non-degenerate curve of degree $d$ and genus $g$ in $\\PP^r$. In this note, we show that any non-empty $\\mathcal{H}_{g+2,g,4}$ is irreducible without any restriction on the genus $g$. Our result augments the irreducibility result obtained earlier by Hristo Iliev(2006), in which several low genus $g\\le 10$ cases have been left untreated.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2017-03-22T04:35:35.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "14H10", "14C05" ], "keywords": [ "smooth curves", "hilbert scheme", "general point corresponds", "low genus", "non-degenerate curve" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }