The irreducibility conjecture for the ordered-node space of rational curves on polarized K3 surfaces

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Let Kp{\mathcal K}_p be the moduli space of polarized K3 surfaces (X,L)(X,L) of genus pp, and let VL,0{\mathcal V}_{L,0} be the universal Severi variety of rational curves in ∣L∣|L| over Kp{\mathcal K}_p. Define the space of rational curves with an ordering of their pp singular points by

WL,0={(X,L,C,s1,s2,…,sp):(X,L,C)∈VL,0, Csing⁡={s1,s2,…,sp}}.{\mathcal W}_{L,0}=\left\{(X,L,C,s_1,s_2,\ldots,s_p):(X,L,C)\in{\mathcal V}_{L,0},\ C_{\operatorname{sing}}=\{s_1,s_2,\ldots,s_p\}\right\}.

The ordered-node irreducibility conjecture. Then WL,0{\mathcal W}_{L,0} is irreducible. This is identified as the difficult monodromy-related part of the proposed approach to the irreducibility of the universal Severi variety; the source does not prove it.

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Xi Chen, “Nodal Curves on K3 Surfaces”, arXiv:1611.07423 (2019).

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