Special divisors and vector bundles (Q1094489)

Let X be a compact Riemann surface of genus g. Denote by \(U_{n,d}\) the variety of isomorphism classes of stable bundles of rank \(n\) and degree \(d\) on X and by \(M_{n,d}\) its compactification via semistable bundles. Consider the set \(U^ r_ d=\{V\in U_{n,d}| h^ 0(X,V)\geq r+1\}\) and its closure \(W^ r_ d\) in \(M_{n,d}\). The author starts a Brill- Noether theory in this generalized context (the classical case corresponds just to rank n\(=1)\). In particular he obtains existence results concerning special bundles (a stable vector bundle V of nonnegative degree is called here special if \(h^ 1(X,V)\neq 0)\) and precise results about \(W^ 0_ d, W^ 1_ d\). Among the open problems considered by the author we mention the following: has \(W^ r_ d\) for \(0<d\leq n(g-1)\) and X general the expected dimension \(\rho(r,d,n)\)? Here \(\rho(r,d,n) = n^ 2(g-1)+1-(r+1)(r+1-d-n+ng)\) is the generalized Brill- Noether number.