Pointed Castelnuovo numbers (Q736711)

For a smooth algebraic curve of genus \(g\) with Brill-Noether number \(\varrho(g,r,d) = 0\), a finite number of linear series of degree \(d\) and dimension \(r\) over \(C\) exists. A classical result by Castelnuovo counts these series and a generalization by \textit{D. Eisenbud} and \textit{J. Harris} [Invent. Math. 90, 359--387 (1987; Zbl 0631.14023)] provides a formula for the number of linear series with a prescribed vanishing sequence \(a: 0 \leq a_0 \leq \cdot \leq a_r \leq d\) at a fixed general point~\(p\). In this article, the authors consider curves with adjusted Brill-Noether number \(\varrho(g,r,d,a) = -1\) and count the number of pairs of points \(p\) and linear series with prescribed vanishing sequence \(a\) at \(p\). Pointed curves with \(\varrho(g,r,d,a) = -1\) at the marked point form a divisor in the moduli stack \({\mathcal M}_{g,1}\) and the authors compute classes of closures in \(\overline{\mathcal M}_{g,1}\) of such divisors. Moreover, they show that classes of Brill-Noether loci of codimension two are generally not proportional. For Brill-Noether divisors, this is known to be true [\textit{D. Eisenbud} and \textit{J. Harris}, Invent. Math. 90, 359--387 (1987; Zbl 0631.14023)].