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Spaces of rational curves on complete intersections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2013

Roya Beheshti
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA (email: beheshti@wustl.edu)
N. Mohan Kumar
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA (email: kumar@wustl.edu)
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Abstract

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We prove that the space of smooth rational curves of degree $e$ on a general complete intersection of multidegree $(d_1, \ldots , d_m)$ in $\mathbb {P}^n$ is irreducible of the expected dimension if $\sum _{i=1}^m d_i \lt (2n+m+1)/3$ and $n$ is sufficiently large. This generalizes a result of Harris, Roth and Starr [Rational curves on hypersurfaces of low degree, J. Reine Angew. Math. 571 (2004), 73–106], and is achieved by proving that the space of conics passing through any point of a general complete intersection has constant dimension if $\sum _{i=1}^m d_i$ is small compared to $n$.

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