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Brill-Noether loci with fixed determinant in rank 2

Algebraic Geometry 2011-08-26 v2

Abstract

In the 1990's, Bertram, Feinberg and Mukai examined Brill-Noether loci for vector bundles of rank 2 with fixed canonical determinant, noting that the dimension was always bigger in this case than the naive expectation. We generalize their results to treat a much broader range of fixed-determinant Brill-Noether loci. The main technique is a careful study of symplectic Grassmannians and related concepts.

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@article{arxiv.1005.0448,
  title  = {Brill-Noether loci with fixed determinant in rank 2},
  author = {Brian Osserman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.0448},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

20 pages. Expanded appendix on codimension for stacks

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