Pointed Castelnuovo numbers

DOI10.4310/MRL.2016.V23.N2.A5MaRDI QIDQ736711zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Gavril Farkas, Nicola Tarasca

Publication date 5 August 2016

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04882

zbMATH Keywords

Brill-Noether theoryCastelnuovo numbersenumerative geometrylinear seriesvanishing sequence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special divisors on curves (gonality, Brill-Noether theory) (14H51) Computational aspects of algebraic curves (14Q05)

Abstract: The classical Castelnuovo numbers count linear series of minimal degree and fixed dimension on a general curve, in the case when this number is finite. For pencils, that is, linear series of dimension one, the Castelnuovo numbers specialize to the better known Catalan numbers. Using the Fulton-Pragacz determinantal formula for flag bundles and combinatorial manipulations, we obtain a compact formula for the number of linear series on a general curve having prescribed ramification at an arbitrary point, in the case when the expected number of such linear series is finite. The formula is then used to solve some enumerative problems on moduli spaces of curves.

Review text

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)].

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