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Nodal curves play a crucial role in the geometry and the deformation theory of \\(K3\\) surfaces: for instance, it was proved by \\textit{X. Chen} [Math. Ann. 324, No. 1, 71--104 (2002; Zbl 1039.14019); New York J. Math. 25, 168--173 (2019; Zbl 1409.14065)] that a general singular curve in \\(|L|\\) of geometric genus \\(g-\\delta\\) is nodal, and nodal curves were employed by \\textit{X. Chen} and \\textit{F. Gounelas} [Forum Math. Sigma 10, Paper No. e36, 21 p. (2022; Zbl 1494.14034)] to show the existence of curves on \\(K3\\) surfaces with maximal variation in moduli.  Standard techniques show that the Severi variety \\(V^{L,\\delta}\\) of a general \\(K3\\) surface \\((X,L)\\) of genus \\(g\\ge \\delta\\) is smooth, non-empty and of codimension \\(\\delta\\) in \\(|L|\\). If \\(g=\\delta\\), then the curves parametrized by \\(V^{L,g}\\) are rational, and thus \\(V^{L,g}\\) is the disjoint union of points. The length of \\(V^{L,g}\\) is given by the well-known formula by \\textit{S.-T. Yau} and \\textit{E. Zaslow} [Nucl. Phys. B 471, No. 3, 503--512 (1996; Zbl 0964.81521)]. However, it is conjectured that the closure \\(\\overline{V}^{L,\\delta}\\subseteq |L|\\) is irreducible for any \\(0\\le \\delta < g\\). This conjecture was proved by \\textit{A. Bruno} and \\textit{M. Lelli-Chiesa} [``Irreducibility of Severi varieties on \\(K3\\) surfaces'', Preprint, \\url{arXiv:2112.09398}] in the case \\(\\delta\\le g-4\\).  The present article investigates the structure of the Severi curve \\(\\overline{V}^{L,g-1}\\) on a very general \\(K3\\) surface, and in particular the genus of \\(\\overline{V}^{L,g-1}\\). The authors show that the \\textit{total geometric genus} of \\(\\overline{V}^{L,g-1}\\), i.e. the sum of the geometric genera of the components of the normalization, grows with \\(g\\), and more precisely it is bounded from below by \\(O(e^{C \\sqrt{g}})\\) for some constant \\(C>0\\). The idea of the proof is to relate the Severi curve to the Kontsevich moduli space \\(\\mathcal{M}_1(X,L)\\) of genus \\(1\\) stable maps to \\(X\\), and deform the polarized \\(K3\\) surface \\((X,L)\\) to a hyperelliptic \\(K3\\) surface \\((X_0,L_0)\\). The bound on the genus of the Severi curve is then obtained by a virtual count with the fundamental class of the flat limit \\(\\overline{\\mathcal{M}}_1^{\\text{lim}}(X_0,L_0)\\), which is related to the Gromov-Witten virtual class \\([\\overline{\\mathcal{M}}_1(X_0,L_0)]^{\\text{vir}}\\).","citation":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q4590945"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1359169"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1359213"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q4942943"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1849644"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1717442"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1359515"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q5232921"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q4027689"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q2181909"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q4379889"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1078266"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q3333172"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q3066416"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q4106682"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q4056134"},{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q1915088"}]},"provenance":{"prov:generatedAtTime":"2025-01-27T17:49:10Z","prov:wasAttributedTo":"MaRDI Knowledge Graph"}}