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Let X ⊂ P be a smooth irreducible projective threefold, and d its degree. In this paper we prove that there exists a constant β such that for all X containing a smooth ruled surface as hyperplane section and not contained in a fourfold of degree less than or equal to 15, d ≤ β. Under some more restrictive hypothesis we prove an analogous result for threefolds containing a smooth ruled surface as hyperplane section and contained in a fourfold of degree less than or equal to 15.

Let $X\subset {\mathbb{P}}^N$ be a smooth irreducible non degenerate surface over the complex numbers, $N\ge 4$. We define the projective genus of $X$, denoted by $PG(X)$, as the geometric genus of the singular curve of the projection of $X$ from a general linear subspace of codimension four. Denote by $g(X)$ the sectional genus of $X$. In this paper we conjecture that the only surfaces for which $PG(X)=g(X)-1$ are the del Pezzo surface in ${\mathbb{P}}^4$, in ${\mathbb{P}}^5$ and a conic bundle of degree 5 in ${\mathbb{P}}^4$. We prove that for $N\ge 5$ if $PG(X)=g(X)-1+\lambda$, $\lambda$ a non negative integer, then $g(X)\le \lambda +1+\alpha$ where $\alpha =-2$ for a...