The irreducibility conjecture for universal Severi varieties of K3 surfaces

Let Fg\mathcal F_g be the irreducible 1919-dimensional moduli stack of primitively polarized K3K3 surfaces of genus gg, and let Vg,δ\mathcal{V}_{g,\delta} be the universal Severi variety parametrizing δ\delta-nodal curves on the corresponding polarized surfaces, for 0δg0\leq \delta\leq g.

Universal Severi irreducibility conjecture. For every 0δg0\leq \delta\leq g, the universal Severi variety Vg,δ\mathcal{V}_{g,\delta} is irreducible.

This is a weaker form of the fiberwise Severi irreducibility conjecture and was considered more approachable. The source presents it as a conjectural statement; no resolution is supplied in the given text.

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Primary source

Andrea Bruno and Margherita Lelli-Chiesa, “Irreducibility of Severi varieties on K3 surfaces”, arXiv:2112.09398 (2023).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2016–2021). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1611.07423.

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