Brill-Noether loci and generated torsionfree sheaves over nodal and cuspidal curves (Q1949795)

Let \(Y\) be an irreducible reduced curve with nodes and cusps as singularities and let \(E\) be a globally generated torsion-free sheaf. The authors prove two theorems concerning the (semi)stability of the kernels of the maps \(H^0(Y,E)\otimes\mathcal{O}_Y\to E\to 0\) and \(H^0(Y,K_Y)\otimes\mathcal{O}_Y\to K_Y\to 0\). Using these results they study the Brill-Noether loci \(B(n,d,k)\) of stable torsion-free sheaves over Y of rank n, degree d and with at least k independent sections. In particular they give conditions for the non-emptyness of \(B(n,d,k)\), find its Zariski tangent space, its singular set and provide an example. As further result the authors study the stability properties of the restriction of the Picard bundle to the image of a map \(Y \to \overline{J}^d(Y)\), where \(\overline{J}^d(Y)\) denotes the compactified Jacobian of \(Y\).