The interpolation problem: When can you pass a curve of a given type through N random points in space?

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Main Authors: Larson, Eric, Vakil, Ravi, Vogt, Isabel
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Published: 2024
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author Larson, Eric
Vakil, Ravi
Vogt, Isabel
author_facet Larson, Eric
Vakil, Ravi
Vogt, Isabel
contents The interpolation problem is a natural and fundamental question whose roots trace back to ancient Greece. The story is long and rich, with many chapters, and a complete solution has been obtained only recently. Exploring it leads us on a tour through a number of general themes in geometry. This concrete problem motivates fundamental concepts such as moduli spaces and their properties, deformation theory, normal bundles, and more. Questions about smooth objects lead us to consider singular (non-smooth) objects, and in fact these smooth objects are studied by instead focusing on somehow simpler "non-smooth" objects, and then deforming them.
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spellingShingle The interpolation problem: When can you pass a curve of a given type through N random points in space?
Larson, Eric
Vakil, Ravi
Vogt, Isabel
Algebraic Geometry
14H99, 14H51, 14H60
The interpolation problem is a natural and fundamental question whose roots trace back to ancient Greece. The story is long and rich, with many chapters, and a complete solution has been obtained only recently. Exploring it leads us on a tour through a number of general themes in geometry. This concrete problem motivates fundamental concepts such as moduli spaces and their properties, deformation theory, normal bundles, and more. Questions about smooth objects lead us to consider singular (non-smooth) objects, and in fact these smooth objects are studied by instead focusing on somehow simpler "non-smooth" objects, and then deforming them.
title The interpolation problem: When can you pass a curve of a given type through N random points in space?
topic Algebraic Geometry
14H99, 14H51, 14H60
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17313