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On bundles of rank 3 computing Clifford indices

Algebraic Geometry 2015-01-14 v3

Abstract

Let CC be a smooth irreducible projective algebraic curve defined over the complex numbers. The notion of the Clifford index of CC was extended a few years ago to semistable bundles of any rank. Recent work has been focussed mainly on the rank-2 Clifford index, although interesting results have also been obtained for the case of rank 3. In this paper we extend this work, obtaining improved lower bounds for the rank-3 Clifford index. This allows the first computations of the rank-3 index in non-trivial cases and examples for which the rank-3 index is greater than the rank-2 index.

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@article{arxiv.1201.2333,
  title  = {On bundles of rank 3 computing Clifford indices},
  author = {H. Lange and P. E. Newstead},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.2333},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

A few minor amendments; no mathematical changes; one additional reference