Huisman's conjecture for unramified real curves in even-dimensional projective space

Let XPnX\subset\mathbb{P}^{n} be a smooth, geometrically integral, nondegenerate real curve with X(R)X(\mathbb{R})\neq\emptyset. A real curve is unramified if every real hyperplane HPnH\subset\mathbb{P}^{n} satisfies

wt(HX)n1,\operatorname{wt}(H\cdot X)\leq n-1,

where the weight is the degree of the difference between HXH\cdot X and its reduced divisor. A twisted form of a rational normal curve is a real curve whose base change XCX_{\mathbb{C}} is a rational normal curve. Huisman's conjecture. If n4n\geq 4 is even and XPnX\subset\mathbb{P}^{n} is an unramified real curve, then XX is a rational normal curve or a twisted form of a rational normal curve. Huisman’s computations show nonzero real inflection-point counts for certain positive-genus embeddings, while the classification asserted here remains open.

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Mario Kummer and Dimitri Manevich, “On Huisman's conjectures about unramified real curves”, arXiv:1909.09601 (2021).

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