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Double Structures and Normal Bundle of Space Curves
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Received 15 June 1995. Revision received 1 May 1996.
It is shown that the general plane section of a double structure on an integral curve C
P3 has a connected numerical character (that is, its Hilbert function is of decreasing type). The paper gives applications, particularly to the stability of the normal bundle of space curves.