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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

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 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

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

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

We produce open subsets of the moduli space of metric graphs without separating edges where the dimensions of Brill-Noether loci are larger than the corresponding Brill-Noether numbers. These graphs also have minimal rank determining sets…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Chang Mou Lim , Sam Payne , Natasha Potashnik

This paper gives a novel and compact proof that a metric graph consisting of a chain of loops of torsion order $0$ is Brill-Noether general (a theorem of Cools-Draisma-Payne-Robeva), and a finite or metric graph consisting of a chain of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Nathan Pflueger

Lazarsfeld proved Brill--Noether generality of any smooth curve in the linear system $|H|$ where $(X,H)$ is a polarized K3 surface with $\mathrm{Pic}(X) = \mathbb{Z}\cdot H$. Mukai introduced the notion of Brill--Noether generality for…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Irina Shatova

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 give a short proof that every finite graph (or matroid) has a tree-decomposition that displays all maximal tangles. This theorem for graphs is a central result of the graph minors project of Robertson and Seymour and the extension to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-01 Johannes Carmesin

Brill-Noether theory studies the existence and deformations of curves in projective spaces; its basic object of study is $\mathcal{W}^r_{d,g}$, the moduli space of smooth genus $g$ curves with a choice of degree $d$ line bundle having at…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-25 Nathan Pflueger

Let $G$ be a finite graph of genus $g$. Let $d$ and $r$ be non-negative integers such that the Brill-Noether number is non-negative. It is known that for some $k$ sufficiently large, the $k$-th homothetic refinement $G^{(k)}$ of $G$ admits…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Karl Christ , Qixiao Ma

We formulate a categorification of Robertson's conjecture analogous to the categorical graph minor conjecture of Miyata--Proudfood--Ramos. We show that these conjectures imply the existence of a finite list of atomic graphs generating the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Ben Knudsen , Eric Ramos

In this survey, we discuss linear series on tropical curves and their relation to classical algebraic geometry, describe the main techniques of the subject, and survey some of the recent major developments in the field, with an emphasis on…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-08 Matthew Baker , David Jensen

The classical Brill-Noether theorems count the dimension of the family of maps from a general curve of genus g to non-degenerate curves of degree d in r-dimensional projective space. These theorems can be extended to include ramification…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-30 Rebecca Lehman

We introduce a variant of global generation for coherent sheaves on abelian varieties which, under certain circumstances, implies ampleness. This extends a criterion of Debarre asserting that a continuously globally generated coherent sheaf…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Giuseppe Pareschi

We study generalized splines from the perspective of the representation theory of the category of graphs with contractions. Our main theorem proves a kind of finite generation, which in turn implies the existence of a ``universal generating…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Jacob Matherne , Eric Ramos , Julianna Tymoczko

In this paper, we construct some examples of rank-2 Brill-Noether loci with "unexpected" properties on general curves. The key example is in genus 6, but we also have interesting examples in rank 5 and in higher genus. We relate some of our…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Peter Newstead

We provide an example of a trivalent, 3-connected graph G such that, for any choice of metric on G, the resulting metric graph is Brill-Noether special.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-12 David Jensen

Trigonal curves provide an example of Brill-Noether special curves. Theorem 1.3 of [9] characterizes the Brill-Noether theory of general trigonal curves and the refined stratification by Brill-Noether splitting loci, which parametrize line…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-04 Hannah K. Larson