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We briefly survey recent results related to linear series on curves that are general in various moduli spaces, highlighting the interplay between algebraic geometry on a general curve and the combinatorics of its degenerations.…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-02 David Jensen , Sam Payne

The divisor theory of the complete graph $K_n$ is in many ways similar to that of a plane curve of degree $n$. We compute the splitting types of all divisors on the complete graph $K_n$. We see that the possible splitting types of divisors…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Haruku Aono , Eric Burkholder , Owen Craig , Ketsile Dikobe , David Jensen , Ella Norris

We develop a theory of Brill-Noether divisors on the moduli space of stable spin curves of genus g, and compute the classes of these loci. A spin Brill-Noether cycle is defined in terms of the relative position of the spin structure with…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-05-07 Gavril Farkas

Given a curve $C$ that is a degree $k$ cover $C \to \mathbb{P}^1$ totally ramified at two points $p$ and $q$, we can seek to understand the space of degree $d$ line bundles on $C$ with prescribed ramification at $p$ and $q$. The…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Daksh Aggarwal

Let (S,H) be a polarized K3 surface. We define Brill-Noether filtration on moduli spaces of vector bundles on S. Assume that (c_1(E),H) > 0 for a sheaf E in the moduli space. We give a formula for the expected dimension of the Brill-Noether…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Maxim Leyenson

In this paper we deal with Brill-Noether theory for higher-rank sheaves on a polarized nodal reducible curve $(C,\underline{w})$ following the ideas of [arXiv:alg-geom/9511003v1]. We study the Brill-Noether loci of $\underline{w}$-stable…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-29 Sonia Brivio , Filippo F. Favale

A refined Brill--Noether theory seeks to determine which linear series are admitted by a ``general'' curve in a particular Brill--Noether locus. However, as Brill--Noether loci are not irreducible in general, a coarse answer is given by the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Richard Haburcak

We develop a novel approach to the Brill-Noether theory of curves endowed with a degree k cover of the projective line via Bridgeland stability conditions on elliptic K3 surfaces. We first develop the Brill-Noether theory on elliptic K3…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Gavril Farkas , Soheyla Feyzbakhsh , Andrés Rojas

Our purpose in this paper is to construct new examples of twisted Brill Noether loci on curves of genus g greater than 2 with negative expected dimension. We begin by completing the proof of Butler's conjecture for coherent systems of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-21 L. Brambila-Paz , P. E. Newstead

We study Brill-Noether loci of three kinds of spectral curves: classical spectral curves as introduced by Hitchin, spectral curves over the projective line and double covers whose branch locus is a canonical divisor. Our techniques are…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Clemens Nollau

We describe a conjectural stratification of the Brill-Noether variety for general curves of fixed genus and gonality. As evidence for this conjecture, we show that this Brill-Noether variety has at least as many irreducible components as…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-22 Kaelin Cook-Powell , David Jensen

In this paper, we survey recent developments in the Brill-Noether Theory of higher rank vector bundles on complex projective surfaces. We focus on weak Brill-Noether Theorems on rational and K-trivial surfaces and their applications.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Izzet Coskun , Jack Huizenga , Howard Nuer

We consider coverings of real algebraic curves to real rational algebraic curves. We show the existence of such coverings having prescribed topological degree on the real locus. From those existence results we prove some results on…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-26 Marc Coppens , Johannes Huisman

The geometry of divisors on algebraic curves has been studied extensively over the years. The foundational results of this Brill-Noether theory imply that on a general curve, the spaces parametrizing linear series (of fixed degree and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-14 John Sheridan

In this paper we study Brill-Noether loci for rank-two vector bundles and describe the general member of some components as suitable extensions of line bundles.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Ciro Ciliberto , Flaminio Flamini

The Brill-Noether theory of curves plays a fundamental role in the theory of curves and their moduli and has been intensively studied since the 19th century. In contrast, Brill-Noether theory for higher dimensional varieties is less…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Izzet Coskun , Jack Huizenga , Neelarnab Raha

The gonality sequence $(d_r)_{r\geq1}$ of a smooth algebraic curve comprises the minimal degrees $d_r$ of linear systems of rank $r$. We explain two approaches to compute the gonality sequence of smooth curves in $\mathbb{P}^1 \times…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-22 Filip Cools , Michele D'Adderio , David Jensen , Marta Panizzut

In this paper we compute the gonality and the dimension of the Brill-Noether loci $W^1_d(C)$ for curves in a non primitive linear system of a simple abelian surface, adapting vector bundles techniques \`a la Lazarsfeld originally introduced…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Federico Moretti

We show that a general curve in an explicit class of what we call Du Val pointed curves satisfies the Brill-Noether Theorem for pointed curves. Furthermore, we prove that a generic pencil of Du Val pointed curves is disjoint from all…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Gavril Farkas , Nicola Tarasca

A Brill-Noether locus is a subscheme of the moduli of bundles E over a curve C defined by requiring E to have a given number of sections, or homomorphisms from another bundle. There are a number of different types, that can be treated by…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Shigeru Mukai