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Rational curves on a smooth Hermitian surface II

Algebraic Geometry 2020-03-31 v1

Abstract

In characteristic p>0p>0 and for qq a power of pp, we compute the number of nonplanar rational curves of arbitrary degrees on a smooth Hermitian surface of degree q+1q+1 under the assumption that the curves have a parametrization given by polynomials with at most 44 terms. It is shown that a smooth Hermitian cubic surface contains infinitely many rational curves of degree 33 and 66. On the other hand, for all other cases the numbers of curves are finite and they are exactly determined. Further such rational curves are given explicitly up to projective isomorphism and their smoothness are checked.

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@article{arxiv.2003.13211,
  title  = {Rational curves on a smooth Hermitian surface II},
  author = {Norifumi Ojiro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.13211},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

9 pages, Sequel to arXiv:1812.05470

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