Regular and rigid curves on some Calabi–Yau and general-type complete intersections

Abstract

Let $X$ be either a general hypersurface of degree $n+1$ in ${\mathbb{P}}^n$ or a general $(2,n)$ complete intersection in ${\mathbb{P}}^{n+1},n\ge 4$. We construct balanced rational curves on $X$ of all high enough degrees. If $n=4$ or $g=1$, we construct rigid curves of genus $g$ on $X$ of all high enough degrees. As an application we construct some rigid bundles on Calabi–Yau threefolds. In addition, we construct some low-degree balanced rational curves on hypersurfaces of degree $n+2$ in ${\mathbb{P}}^n$.