Irreducibility conjecture for universal Severi varieties of curves on K3 surfaces

Let Bg\mathcal{B}_g be the moduli stack of primitively polarized K3 surfaces of genus g>2g>2, parametrizing pairs (S,M)(S,M) where MM is ample and primitive with (MM)=2g2(M\cdot M)=2g-2. Let UBg\mathcal{U}\subseteq\mathcal{B}_g be the open substack where the Severi variety Vh(S,M)V_h(S,M) is nonempty, and let Vh,kg\mathcal{V}^g_{h,k} be the stack over U\mathcal{U} whose fibre over (S,M)(S,M) is Vh(S,kM)V_h(S,kM). Irreducibility conjecture. The universal Severi variety Vh,kg\mathcal{V}^g_{h,k} is irreducible. This concerns the global irreducibility of Severi varieties in varying primitively polarized K3 surfaces; smoothness is known, while irreducibility is posed as a conjecture in the source.

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Michael Kemeny, “The Universal Severi Variety of Rational Curves on K3 Surfaces”, arXiv:1110.4266 (2011).

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