Constructing Reducible Brill--Noether Curves

2016/03/07 by Larson, Eric · 1 citation
#14H51 #Algebraic Geometry (math.AG) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1603.02301

Abstract

It was recently determined exactly through how many general points a nondegenerate curve with nonspecial hyperplane section can pass. This gives rise to a method of constructing reducible curves C₁ ∪_ΓC₂ → ℙ^r with general nodes: We take a finite set Γ⊂ ℙ^r of general points, and find nondegenerate nonspecial curves C₁ and C₂ in ℙ^r of specified degrees and genera which pass through Γ, and glue together along Γ. The goal of this paper is to show that, subject to certain mild assumptions, stable maps constructed in this manner lie in the closure of the locus of nondegenerate stable maps from curves of general moduli, i.e. are BN-curves. As explained in arXiv:1809.05980, these results play a key role in the author's proof of the Maximal Rank Conjecture.

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