Plane containment conjecture for low-degree curves on general hypersurfaces

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Let XPn+1X \subset \mathbb{P}^{n+1} be a general hypersurface of degree dd and dimension n3n \geq 3, and let CXC \subset X be a curve of degree δ\delta. Assume that

32n+2d2n1.\frac{3}{2}n+2 \leq d \leq 2n-1.

Low-degree curve plane-containment conjecture. Every curve CC of degree δd\delta \leq d must be contained in a 22-plane. This extends the stated minimality theorem for plane curves to the indicated range of hypersurface degrees. The status of the conjecture is not resolved in the supplied source context.

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Nathan Chen and David Yang, “Subvarieties of low degree on general hypersurfaces”, arXiv:2510.11865 (2025).

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