Non-degenerate curves with maximal Hartshorne-Rao module

Extending results for space curves we establish bounds for the cohomology of a non-degenerate curve in projective $n$-space. As a consequence, for any given $n$ we determine all possible pairs $(d, g)$ where $d$ is the degree and $g$ is the (arithmetic) genus of the curve. Furthermore, we show that curves attaining our bounds always exist and describe properties of these extremal curves. In particular, we determine the Hartshorne-Rao module, the generic initial ideal and the graded Betti numbers of an extremal curve. Dedicated to Silvio Greco on the occasion of his 60th birthdayMathematics Subject Classification (2000):14H50, 13D45.     

Curve aritmeticamente Buchsbaum su superfici di grado 3 e 4 dello spazio proiettivo

Riassunto Si studiano curve aritmeticamente Buchsbaum nello spazio proiettivoP ³, tali che l’ordine minimo di una superficie che le contiene è 3 o 4. Per tali curve si determinano l’ordine, il genere aritmetico, il carattere numerico connesso, il modulo di Hartshorne-Rao e la curva legata di ordine minimo. Nel caso di curve situate su superfici cubiche lisce si determinano anche i multigradi corrispondenti.

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Summary In this paper we study arithmetically Buchsbaum curves in the projective spaceP ³, such that the minimal degree of a surface containing them is 3 or 4. For such curves we determine the degree, the aritmethic genus, the connected numerical character, the Hartshorne-Rao module, and the linked curves having minimal degree. For curves lying on smooth cubic surfaces ofP ³ we determine also the associated multidegrees.

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Lavoro eseguito sotto gli auspici del G.N.S.A.G.A. del C.N.R.     

On projective curves of maximal regularity

 Let 𝒞⊆ℙ ^r _K be a non-degenerate projective curve of degree d>r+1 of maximal regularity so that 𝒞 has an extremal secant line . We show that 𝒞∪ is arithmetically Cohen Macaulay if d<2r−1 and we study the Betti numbers and the Hartshorne-Rao module of the curve 𝒞. Received: 27 March 2002; in final form: 24 May 2002 / Published online: 1 April 2003 Mathematics Subject Classification (1991): 14H45, 13D02. The second author was partially supported by Swiss National Science Foundation (Projects No. 20-52762.97 and 20-59237.99).     

Irreducible buchsbaum curves

For every biliaison class C _M of Buchsbaum curves of π ³ we prove that the leftmost shift in which there are smooth and connected curves is the same as for irreducible curves. As a consequence, every irreducible Buchsbaum curve has a flat deformation with cohomology and Hartshorne-Rao module constant which is smooth and connected.     

Even G-liaison classes of some unions of curves

After establishing bounds on the Rao function and on the genus of projective curves that generalize the ones in [5] and in [12], we describe the even G-liaison classes of some unions of curves attaining the bounds, and of more general unions with analogous geometric properties. In particular, we prove that their Hartshorne-Rao module identifies the even G-liaison class.     

ON THE COHOMOLOGY OF A SPACE CURVE CONTAINING A PLANE CURVE

In this paper we study the Hartshorne–Rao module of curves in P ³ of degree d and genus g, containing plane curves of degree d ? p, p ≥ 1. We prove an optimal upper bound for the Rao function of these curves and we show that the curves attaining the bound are obtained from an extremal curve by an elementary biliaison of height min(p, d ? p) ? 1 on a quadric surface.     

Non degenerate projective curves with very degenerate hyperplane section

In this paper, we study the Hilbert scheme of non degenerate locally Cohen- Macaulay projective curves with general hyperplane section spanning a linear space of dimension 2 and minimal Hilbert function. The main result is that those curves are almost always the general element of a generically smooth component H_n,d,g of the corresponding Hilbert scheme. Moreover, we show that the curves with maximal cohomology almost always correspond to smooth points of H_n,d,g.All the authors were partially supported by Acción Integrada Italia-España, HI2000-0091, and by the Italian counterpart of the project.     

Leibniz 2-Algebras and Twisted Courant Algebroids

Let Y be an integral projective curve whose singularities are of type A_k, i.e. with only tacnodes and planar (perhaps non-ordinary) cusps. Set g:= p_a(Y). Here we study the Brill - Noether theory of spanned line bundles on Y. If the singularities are bad enough, we show the existence of spanned degree d line bundles, L, with h⁰(Y, L) ≥ r + 1 even if the Brill - Noether number ρ(g, d, r) < 0. We apply this result to prove that genus g curves with certain singularities cannot be hyperplane section of a simple K3 surface S ? P ^g.     

Projective curves with maximal regularity and applications to syzygies and surfaces

We first show that the union of a projective curve with one of its extremal secant lines satisfies the linear general position principle for hyperplane sections. We use this to give an improved approximation of the Betti numbers of curves ${{\mathcal C}\subset \mathbb P^r_K}$ of maximal regularity with ${{\rm deg}\, {\mathcal C}\leq 2r -3}$ . In particular we specify the number and degrees of generators of the vanishing ideal of such curves. We apply these results to study surfaces ${X \subset \mathbb P^r_K}$ whose generic hyperplane section is a curve of maximal regularity. We first give a criterion for ??an early descent of the Hartshorne-Rao function?? of such surfaces. We use this criterion to give a lower bound on the degree for a class of these surfaces. Then, we study surfaces ${X \subset\mathbb P^r_K}$ for which ${h^1(\mathbb P^r_K, {\mathcal I}_X(1))}$ takes a value close to the possible maximum deg X ? r +?1. We give a lower bound on the degree of such surfaces. We illustrate our results by a number of examples, computed by means of Singular, which show a rich variety of occuring phenomena.     

Curves in the double plane

We study in detail locally Cohen-Macaulay curves in P⁴ which are contained in a double plane 2H, thus completing the classification of curves lying on surfaces of degree two. We describe the irreducible components of the Hilbert schemes H _d,g(2H) of lo-cally Cohen-Macaulay curves in 2H of degree d and arithmetic genus g, and we show that H _d,g(2H) is connected. We also discuss the Rao module of these curves and liaison and biliaison equiva-lence classes.     

Prime Fano threefolds and integrable systems

For a general K3 surface S of genus g, with 2 ≤ g ≤ 10, we prove that the intermediate Jacobians of the family of prime Fano threefolds of genus g containing S as a hyperplane section, form generically an algebraic completely integrable Hamiltonian system. The first author is partially supported by grant MI1503/2005 of the Bulgarian Foundation for Scientific Research.     

Tropical hyperelliptic curves

We study the locus of tropical hyperelliptic curves inside the moduli space of tropical curves of genus g. We define a harmonic morphism of metric graphs and prove that a metric graph is hyperelliptic if and only if it admits a harmonic morphism of degree 2 to a metric tree. This generalizes the work of Baker and Norine on combinatorial graphs to the metric case. We then prove that the locus of 2-edge-connected genus g tropical hyperelliptic curves is a (2g?1)-dimensional stacky polyhedral fan whose maximal cells are in bijection with trees on g?1 vertices with maximum valence 3. Finally, we show that the Berkovich skeleton of a classical hyperelliptic plane curve satisfying a certain tropical smoothness condition is a standard ladder of genus g.     

On the order of projective curves

Here we prove the existence of several componentsW of the Hilbert scheme of curves inP ⁿ such that the generalC W has Hartshorne-Rao module with order equal to its diameter.     

The minimal degree of plane models of algebraic curves and double coverings

Let C be a smooth irreducible projective curve of genus g and s(C, 2) (or simply s(2)) the minimal degree of plane models of C. We show the non-existence of curves with s(2) = g for g ≥ 10, g ≠ 11. Another main result is determining the value of s(2) for double coverings of hyperelliptic curves. We also give a criterion for a curve with big s(2) to be a double covering.     

Projective degenerations of K3 surfaces,Gaussian maps,and Fano threefolds

Summary In this article we exhibit certain projective degenerations of smoothK3 surfaces of degree 2g–2 in ^g (whose Picard group is generated by the hyperplane class), to a union of two rational normal scrolls, and also to a union of planes. As a consequence we prove that the general hyperplane section of suchK3 surfaces has a corank one Gaussian map, ifg=11 org13. We also prove that the general such hyperplane section lies on a uniqueK3 surface, up to projectivities. Finally we present a new approach to the classification of prime Fano threefolds of index one, which does not rely on the existence of a line.Oblatum 1-II-1993 & 24-V-1993Research supported in part by NSF grant DMS-9104058     

A characterization of bielliptic curves and applications to their moduli spaces

We deal with the covers of degree 4 naturally associated to a bielliptic curve of genus g≥6, giving a proof of the unirationality of the moduli space ? _g ^be of such curves, of the rationality of the Hurwitz scheme ℌ ^be _{4, g} of bielliptic curves of even genus g, whereas, when g is odd, we construct a finite map ℂ^{2 g -2}→? _g ^be and compute its degree. Received: March 25, 2000; in final form: March 10, 2001?Published online: May 29, 2002     

On the connectedness of the first cohomology module for rank two vector bundles on projective space

We provide sufficient conditions for the connectedness of the Hartshorne-Rao module of integral subcanonical curves and of the first cohomology module for rank two vector bundles on projective space.

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Sunto Si danno condizioni sufficienti per la connessità del modulo di Hartshorne-Rao di una curva integra sottocanonica e del primo modulo di coomologia di un fibrato vettoriale di rango due sullo spazio proiettivo.

     

p -SOLVABILITY AND A GENERALIZATION OF PRIME GRAPHS OF FINITE GROUPS

Abstract

The real Torelli mapping, from the moduli space of real curves of genus g to the moduli space of g-dimensional real principally polarized abelian varieties, sends a real curve into its real Jacobian. The real Schottky problem is to describe its image. The results contained in the present paper concern hyperelliptic real curves and in particular real curves of genus 2. We exhibit also some counterexamples for the non-hyperelliptic case.     

Irreducibility of the Hilbert scheme of smooth curves in $$\mathbb {P}^3$$ of de gree g and genus g

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 \(\mathbb {P}^r\). In this note, we show that any non-empty \(\mathcal {H}_{g,g,3}\) is irreducible without any restriction on the genus g. This extends the result obtained earlier by Iliev (Proc Am Math Soc 134:2823–2832, 2006).