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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0745.00042.] The paper is concerned with Green's conjecture for general curves of genus \(g\). One exhibits two classes of matrices, the matrices in each class depending on \(g\), such that if the matrix has maximal rank, then Green's conjecture is true for generic curves of genus \(g\). By computer the authors then verify the conjecture up to \(g = 18\). The technique is to check Green's conjecture for \(g\)-cuspidal rational curves of degree \(2g - 2\) in \(\mathbb{P}^{g-1}\). Firstly such a curve may be considered as the hyperplane section of the tangent developable of a normal rational curve in \(\mathbb{P}^ g\). Using Koszul cohomology techniques one derives that if a certain matrix has maximal rank, then Green's conjecture is true. Secondly a \(g\)-cuspidal rational curve of degree \(2g-2\) in \(\mathbb{P}^{g-1}\) is projectively equivalent to the image of a map \(\mathbb{P}^ 1\to \mathbb{P}^{g-1}\) defined by \[ (s,t) \mapsto (1/(s - z_ 0t)^ 2,1/(s - z_ 1t)^ 2,\dots,1/(s-z_ gt)^ 2). \] Again using Koszul cohomology techniques one deduces that if a certain matrix has maximal rank then Green's conjecture is true.