Griffiths–Harris conjecture on degrees of curves on very general hypersurfaces

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Let X⊂P4X\subset\mathbb{P}^4 be a very general hypersurface of degree d≥6d\ge6, and let C⊂XC\subset X be a curve. Griffiths–Harris conjecture. The degree of CC is divisible by dd. This is the weakest of five conjectures proposed by Griffiths and Harris about curves on very general hypersurfaces. Stronger forms asserting algebraic or rational equivalence to a multiple of a plane section are known to imply it, while their strongest complete-intersection conjecture was disproved by Voisin. The degree-divisibility conjecture remains open in every degree, although the paper proves it for infinitely many degrees, beginning with d=5005d=5005.

References

Primary source

Matthias Paulsen, “On the degree of algebraic cycles on hypersurfaces”, arXiv:2109.06303 (2022).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2010–2021). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1812.05242, arXiv:1812.05246, arXiv:1005.3988.

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