On the syzygies of reducible curves (Q314655)

The author studies the property \(\mathrm{N}_p\) as it pertains to certain kinds of singular reducible curves. For the case of smooth curves, for instance, it is classical that line bundles of degree at least \(2g+1+p\), on a smooth curve of genus \(g\), have property \(\mathrm{N}_p\), [\textit{M. L. Green}, J. Differ. Geom. 19, 125--171 (1984; Zbl 0559.14008)]. The main result of the present article is that if \(X\) is a deeply lci curve, \(L\) a line bundle on \(X\) and \(W \subseteq H^0(L)\) a linear system on \(X\), then \(W\) has property \(\mathrm{N}_p\) provided that \(p\) is at most \(m_Z - g_{Z,X}-2\) for all irreducible components \(Z \subseteq X\). Here, if \(Z\) is an irreducible component of \(X\), then \(m_Z\) denotes the dimension of \(W_Z\), the linear system on \(Z\) induced by \(W\), and \(g_{Z,X}\) denotes the rank of the restriction map \(H^0(\omega_X) \rightarrow H^0(\omega_X\otimes\mathcal{O}_Z)\).