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Brill-Noether theory for curves on generic abelian surfaces

Algebraic Geometry 2018-05-15 v2

Abstract

We completely describe the Brill-Noether theory for curves in the primitive linear system on generic abelian surfaces, in the following sense: given integers dd and rr, consider the variety Vdr(H)V^r_d(|H|) parametrizing curves CC in the primitive linear system H|H| together with a torsion-free sheaf on CC of degree dd and r+1r+1 global sections. We give a necessary and sufficient condition for this variety to be non-empty, and show that it is either a disjoint union of Grassmannians, or irreducible. Moreover, we show that, when non-empty, it is of expected dimension. This completes prior results by Knutsen, Lelli-Chiesa and Mongardi.

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@article{arxiv.1704.03546,
  title  = {Brill-Noether theory for curves on generic abelian surfaces},
  author = {Arend Bayer and Chunyi Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.03546},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

22 pages. v2: minor changes addressing referee comments

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