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Counterexamples to Mercat's Conjecture

Algebraic Geometry 2013-08-01 v2

Abstract

For any n>3, we provide examples of curves lying on K3 surfaces and vector bundles on those curves which invalidate Mercat's conjecture for rank n bundles.

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@article{arxiv.1306.2553,
  title  = {Counterexamples to Mercat's Conjecture},
  author = {Akash Kumar Sengupta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.2553},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

6 pages, Proof of a lemma added in Section 2, Slight change in the proof of the main theorem, added references

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