Obstructions to deforming curves on a -fold, II: Deformations of degenerate curves on a del Pezzo -fold
We study the Hilbert scheme of smooth connected curves on a smooth del Pezzo -fold . We prove that any degenerate curve , i.e. any curve contained in a smooth hyperplane section of , does not deform to a non-degenerate curve if the following two conditions are satisfied: (i) and (ii) for every line on such that , the normal bundle is trivial (i.e. ). As a consequence, we prove an analogue (for ) of a conjecture of J. O. Kleppe, which is concerned with non-reduced components...