Koszul divisors on moduli spaces of curves

DOI10.1353/AJM.0.0053zbMATH Open1176.14006arXivmath/0607475OpenAlexW2027066318MaRDI QIDQ3638121FDOQ3638121

Gavril Farkas

Publication date: 1 July 2009

Published in: American Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Given a moduli problem with a nice coarse moduli space, which is the most intrinsic and natural divisor on this moduli space? We describe a general method of constructing effective divisors on a large class of moduli spaces using the syzygies of the parametrized objects. In this paper we treat the case of the moduli space of curves and we compute the slope of a doubly infinite sequence of Koszul divisors on M_g. We present a single formula which apart from giving myriads of new counterexamples to the Harris-Morrison Slope Conjecture it also encodes virtually all interesting divisor class calculations on M_g. In particular our formula specializes to earlier results due to Harris-Mumford (the case of the Brill-Noether divisors), Eisenbud-Harris (Giseker-Petri divisors), Khosla as well as to our earlier counterexamples to the Slope Conjecture obtained using K3 surfaces and Hurwitz schemes. We also describe five ways of constructing Koszul divisors on moduli spaces of pointed curves. As an application, we improve most of Logan's results on the Kodaira type of M_{g,n}.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0607475

zbMATH Keywords

moduli spaceprojective curveKoszul cohomologydivisors on moduli spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Syzygies, resolutions, complexes and commutative rings (13D02) Divisors, linear systems, invertible sheaves (14C20) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Special divisors on curves (gonality, Brill-Noether theory) (14H51)

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