Generalized inflection points of very general line bundles on smooth curves (Q931364)

Let \(X\) be a smooth irreducible projective curve of genus g defined over the field of complex numbers. The ramification sequence of a linear system \(g^r_d\) at \(P \in X\) is the sequence \(0 \leq \alpha_0 \leq \cdots \leq \alpha_r \leq d - r\) such that the coefficients of \(P\) at the divisors of \(g^r_d\) are exactly \(\{\alpha_i + i : 0 \leq i \leq r\}\); \(P\) is said to be an \textit{inflection point} (respectively, a \textit{normal inflection point}) of \(g^r_d\) if \(\sum_{i = 0}^r \alpha_i > 0\) (respectively, \(\sum_{i = 0}^r \alpha_i = 1\)). A point \(P\) is said to be a \textit{generalized inflection point} of an invertible sheaf \(L\) if for some integer \(n > 0\) it is an inflection point of the linear system determined by \(L^{\otimes n}\). A generalized inflection point is said to be \textit{normal} if for any \(n > 0\) the ramification sequence for \(L^{\otimes n}\) satisfies \(\sum_{i = 0}^r \alpha_i \leq 1\), if furthermore \(\sum_{i = 0}^r \alpha_i = 1\) for exactly one value of \(n\) then \(P\) is said to be \textit{strongly normal}. In the present paper the author proves that if \(L\) is a very general invertible sheaf of degree \(d > 0\) on \(X\) then all generalized inflection points are strongly normal. In particular, the statement holds for the generic invertible sheaf of degree \(d\) on \(X\).