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Restricted Lazarsfeld-Mukai bundles and canonical curves

Algebraic Geometry 2014-10-06 v1

Abstract

We prove two results. First, we establish that the normal bundle of any smooth curve of genus 7 having maximal Clifford index is stable. Note that 7 is the smallest genus for which such a result could possibly hold. We then show that rank four Lazarsfeld-Mukai vector bundles on a curve that lies on a general K3 surface are stable. Both results have consequences for Mercat's conjecture on higher rank vector bundles on generic curves.

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@article{arxiv.1410.0857,
  title  = {Restricted Lazarsfeld-Mukai bundles and canonical curves},
  author = {Marian Aprodu and Gavril Farkas and Angela Ortega},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.0857},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

15 pages. Section 2 of this paper is taken from our preprint arXiv:1212.6248, which has been divided in two parts. To appear in a volume of Advanced Studies in Pure Mathematics (Math. Soc. Japan) on the occasion of Mukai's 60th birthday