Abstract

We study sweeping out of general hypersurfaces by varieties having small moduli spaces. As a consequence, we show that general $K$-trivial hypersurfaces are not rationally swept out by abelian varieties of dimension at least two. As a corollary, we show that Clemens’ conjecture on the finiteness of rational curves of given degree in a general quintic threefold, and Lang’s conjecture saying that such varieties should be rationally swept-out by abelian varieties, contradict