Deformations of half-canonical Gorenstein curves in codimension four

Abstract

Recent work of Ablett (2021) and Kapustka, Kapustka, Ranestad, Schenck, Stillman and Yuan (2021) outlines a number of constructions for singular Gorenstein codimension four varieties. Earlier work of Coughlan, Gołȩbiowski, Kapustka and Kapustka (2016) details a series of nonsingular Gorenstein codimension four constructions with different Betti tables. In this paper we exhibit a number of flat deformations between Gorenstein codimension four varieties in the same Hilbert scheme, realising many of the singular varieties as specialisations of the earlier nonsingular varieties.