The resolution of paracanonical curves of odd genus (Q1757337)

The notion of paracanonical curves is an analog of canonical curves, with a twist by a non-trivial torsion line bundle. The Prym-Green Conjecture, which was first formulated in [\textit{A. Chiodo} et al., Invent. Math. 194, No. 1, 73--118 (2013; Zbl 1284.14006)], predicts that the minimal free resolution of the paracanonical curve corresponding to a general level curve of genus \(g \geq 5\) has at most one non-zero entry in each diagonal of its Betti table. This conjecture was verified for odd genus with level \(2\) or sufficiently high level in the authors' previous work [Invent. Math. 203, No. 1, 265--301 (2016; Zbl 1335.14009)] by using certain \(K3\) surfaces. The main result of this impressive paper proves the conjecture fully for odd genus, i.e. for any level, by using elliptic ruled surfaces instead, to provide explicit examples of pointed Brill-Noether general curves.