We express the genus-two fixed-complex-structure enumerative invariants of P^2 and P^3 in terms of the genus-zero enumerative invariants. The approach is to relate each genus-two fixed-complex-structure enumerative invariant to the corresponding symplectic invariant.
We give a practical formula for counting irreducible nodal genus-three plane curves that a fixed generic complex structure on the normalization. As an intermediate step, we enumerate rational plane curves that have a $(3,4)$-cusp.
Let $C$ be a smooth, absolutely irreducible genus-$3$ curve over a number field $M$. Suppose that the Jacobian of $C$ has complex multiplication by a sextic CM-field $K$. Suppose further that $K$ contains no imaginary quadratic subfield. We give a bound on the primes $mathfrak{p}$ of $M$ such that the stable reduction of $C$ at $mathfrak{p}$ contains three irreducible components of genus $1$.
We prove the $p$-curvature conjecture for rank two vector bundles with connection on generic curves, by combining deformation techniques for families of varieties and topological arguments.
Let $C$ be an irreducible, reduced, non-degenerate curve, of arithmetic genus $g$ and degree $d$, in the projective space $mathbf P^4$ over the complex field. Assume that $C$ satisfies the following {it flag condition of type $(s,t)$}: {$C$ does not lie on any surface of degree $<s$, and on any hypersurface of degree $<t$}. Improving previous results, in the present paper we exhibit a Castelnuovo-Halphen type bound for $g$, under the assumption $sleq t^2-t$ and $dgg t$. In the range $t^2-2t+3leq sleq t^2-t$, $dgg t$, we are able to give some information on the extremal curves. They are arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay curves, and lie on a flag like $Ssubset F$, where $S$ is a surface of degree $s$, $F$ a hypersurface of degree $t$, $S$ is unique, and its general hyperplane section is a space extremal curve, not contained in any surface of degree $<t$. In the case $dequiv 0$ (modulo $s$), they are exactly the complete intersections of a surface $S$ as above, with a hypersurface. As a consequence of previous results, we get a bound for the speciality index of a curve satisfying a flag condition.