Pencils of small degree on curves on unnodal Enriques surfaces (Q2515405)

An Enriques surface is called unnodal if it does not contain any smooth rational curve. The aim of this article is to compute the dimension of the Brill-Noether variety \(W^r_d(C)\), for ``small'' \(d\), when \(C\) is a smooth irreducible curve in a linear system \(| L|\) on an unnodal Enriques surface \(S\), associated to a line bundle \(L\). To state the main result, we need to introduce the numbers: \[ \phi(L)=\min\{L\cdot E\mid E\in \mathrm{Pic}(S), E^2=0, E\not\equiv 0\} \] where \(\equiv\) denotes numerical equivalence; \[ \mu(L)=\min\{L\cdot B-2\mid B\in \mathrm{Pic}(S), B \;\mathrm{effective}, B^2=4, \phi(B)=2, B\not\equiv L\}. \] Let \(k\) be the generic gonality of smooth curves in \(| L|\). Then the authors prove that, if \(L\) is ample with \(L^2\geq 2\) and such that \(k=2\phi(L)<\mu(L)\), then for \(k\leq d\leq g-k\) and \(C\) general in \(| L|\), \(\dim W^1_d(C)=d-k\). This theorem is related to a result of \textit{A. L. Knutsen} and \textit{A. F. Lopez}, who in [Math. Z. 261, No. 3, 659--690 (2009; Zbl 1161.14022)] proved that \(k=\min\{2\phi(L), \mu(L), \lfloor {L^2\over 4}\rfloor +2\}\). They also characterized the cases when \(k\neq 2\phi(L)\).