Talk:Severi variety (Hilbert scheme)

Almost everything is wrong, dubious, or both.

1. What Severi considered were curves in projective plane, not space.

2. I doubt anyone ever analyzed "curves in projective space with given degree and geometric genus and at most node singularities" and called their parameter space a Severi variety. If it ever happened, it's very rare. Saying "geometric genus" and "at most nodal singularities" makes a lot of sense on surfaces, but not much in higher dimension.

3. The much more natural and frequently studied generalization is to projective surfaces other than the projective plane.

4. The statement about the dimension applies to the projective plane only.

5. (see edit) The fact that Severi varieties are irreducible (if that is indeed what was intended) hardly counts as a theorem by Severi, because his proof was completely wrong (the gap in his argument was much larger than what was correct and useful). It was a conjecture for a few decades, proved by Harris in the 80s.

EDIT: never mind my last point, I read the sentence incorrectly. Still, I kept it there, it's useful information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:1970:5F1F:9600:BC8B:5C35:8512:F774 (talk) 23:37, 20 January 2024 (UTC)