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On number of hypersurfaces containing projective curves

S. L'vovsky

alg-geomarXiv:alg-geom/9504002

Abstract

Generalizing a classical lemma of Castelnuovo, we characterize rational normal curves (resp. linearly normal elliptic curves) as curves C⊂ n such that the number of linearly independent hypersurfaces Z⊃ C of given degree~m is maximal (resp. next to maximal).

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