2018/04/11 by Coskun, Izzet, Riedl, Eric
#Algebraic Geometry (math.AG) #FOS: Mathematics
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1804.04107
We prove that a curve of degree dk on a very general surface of degree d ≥ 5 in ℙ3 has geometric genus at least (dk(d-5)+k)/(2) + 1. This improves bounds given by G. Xu. As a corollary, we conclude that the very general quintic surface in ℙ3 is algebraically hyperbolic.