RT Journal Article T1 An infinitesimal condition to smooth ropes A1 Gallego Rodrigo, Francisco Javier A1 González, Miguel A1 Purnaprajna, Bangere P. AB In this article we give a condition, which holds in a very general setting, to smooth a rope, of any dimension, embedded in projective space. As a consequence of this we prove that canonically embedded carpets satisfying mild geometric conditions can be smoothed. Our condition for smoothing a rope can be stated very transparently in terms of the cohomology class of a suitable first order infinitesimal deformation of a morphism I center dot associated to . In order to prove these results we find a sufficient condition, of independent interest, for a morphism I center dot from a smooth variety X to projective space, finite onto a smooth image, to be deformed to an embedding. Another application of this result on deformation of morphisms is the construction of smooth varieties in projective space with given invariants. We illustrate this by constructing canonically embedded surfaces with and deriving some interesting properties of their moduli spaces. The results of this article bear further evidence to the complexity of the moduli of surfaces of general type and its sharp contrast with the moduli of other objects such as curves or K3 surfaces. PB Springer SN 1139-1138 YR 2013 FD 2013-01 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/33255 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/33255 LA eng NO UCM NO General Research Fund (GRF) of the University of Kansas DS Docta Complutense RD 7 abr 2025