Nodal rational curves conjecture for very general polarized K3 surfaces

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Let (X,L)(X,L) be a very general polarized K3K3 surface. A rational curve in ∣L∣|L| is a curve of geometric genus 00. Nodal rational curves conjecture. All rational curves in ∣L∣|L| are nodal. The case of rational curves is a genuine exception to the preceding nodality result in the source, which gives examples with cusps on special quartic sections; the conjecture predicts that such singularities do not occur for a very general polarized K3K3 surface and is important for enumerative formulas for rational curves.

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Thomas Dedieu and Edoardo Sernesi, “Equigeneric and equisingular families of curves on surfaces”, arXiv:1410.4221 (2015).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (1998–2014). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/9804075.

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