Higher ramification and varieties of secant divisors on the generic curve

DOI10.1112/JLMS/JDN038MaRDI QIDQ3531445zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gavril Farkas

Publication date 31 October 2008

Published in Journal of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0874

zbMATH Keywords

cycleenumerative geometryprojective curvesecant plane

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Divisors, linear systems, invertible sheaves (14C20) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10)

Abstract: For a smooth projective curve, the cycles of e-secant k-planes are among the most studied objects in classical enumerative geometry and there are well-known formulas due to Castelnuovo, Cayley and MacDonald concerning them. Despite various attempts, surprisingly little is known about the enumerative validity of such formulas. The aim of this paper is to completely clarify this problem in the case of the generic curve C of given genus. Using degeneration techniques and a few facts about the birational geometry of moduli spaces of stable pointed curves we determine precisely under which conditions the cycle of e-secant k-planes in non-empty and we compute its dimension. We also precisely determine the dimension of the variety of linear series on C carrying e-secant k-planes. In a different direction, in the last part of the paper we study the distribution of ramification points of the powers of a line bundle on C having prescribed ramification at a given point.

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