Secant planes of a general curve via degenerations

DOI10.1007/S10711-020-00545-3MaRDI QIDQ2664079zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ethan Cotterill, Xiang He, Naizhen Zhang

Publication date 20 April 2021

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.06430

zbMATH Keywords

degenerationslinear seriesmoduli of curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial identities, bijective combinatorics (05A19) Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Special divisors on curves (gonality, Brill-Noether theory) (14H51) Enumerative problems (combinatorial problems) in algebraic geometry (14N10)

Abstract: We study linear series on a general curve of genus g, whose images are exceptional with respect to their secant planes. Each such exceptional secant plane is algebraically encoded by an included linear series, whose number of base points computes the incidence degree of the corresponding secant plane. With enumerative applications in mind, we construct a moduli scheme of inclusions of limit linear series with base points over families of nodal curves of compact type, which we then use to compute combinatorial formulas for the number of secant-exceptional linear series when the spaces of linear series and of inclusions are finite.

Review text

In this paper, Osserman's theory of limit linear series, as a generalization of that of Eisenbud-Harris for compact type curves, is reviewed. Built on that, two constructions of a moduli space of inclusions of limit linear series are provided. Both spaces agree set-theoretically, but the second one, described as an intersection of determinantal loci of vector bundles helps proving a smoothing theorem for inclusion of limit linear series in special cases. Based on this, explicit formulas for counting inclusion of limit linear series, and equivalently for the number of secant planes to the image of a curve under a map are calculated. The paper ends with an example showing that the moduli of included limit linear series may have a component of unexpectedly large dimension. Reviewer's remark: In Definition 4.1, the divisor \(D\) seems undefined -- perhaps \(Y\) may have been intended?

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