Unirationality of the Hurwitz space H₉,8

DOI10.1007/S00013-017-1095-3MaRDI QIDQ1682402zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hamid Damadi, Frank-Olaf Schreyer

Publication date 30 November 2017

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.03291

zbMATH Keywords

Hurwitz spaceunirationality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Plane and space curves (14H50) Special divisors on curves (gonality, Brill-Noether theory) (14H51) Rational and unirational varieties (14M20) Computational aspects of algebraic curves (14Q05)

Abstract: In this paper we prove that the Hurwitz space H_{9,8}, which parameterizes 8-sheeted covers of P^1 by curves of genus 9, is unirational. Our construction leads to an explicit Macaulay2 code, which will randomly produce a nodal curve of degree 8 of geometric genus 9 with 12 double points and together with a pencil of degree 8.

Review text

The authors study the Hurwitz space \(\mathcal H_{9,8}\) which parameterizes \(8\)-sheeted covers of \(\mathbb P^1\) by curves of genus \(9\). The main result shows that \(\mathcal H_{9,8}\) is unirational. The idea of proof is to deduce the unirationality from the corresponding Brill-Noether locus. As a consequence, the authors develop an explicit computer code which can randomly produce a nodal curve of genus \(9\) with \(12\) nodes and a pencil of degree \(8\).

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• Matrix factorizations and curves in \(\mathbb{P}^4\)
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• The unirationality of the Hurwitz schemes \(\mathcal H_{10, 8}\) and \(\mathcal H_{13, 7}\)
• Unirationality of Hurwitz spaces of coverings of degree 5

Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• Macaulay2
• 6gonal.m2
• RandomCurveOfGenus9WithPencilOfDegree8

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