A Clifford inequality for semistable curves

DOI10.1007/S00209-022-03173-7MaRDI QIDQ6396756arXivWikidataFDO

Authors Karl Christ

Publication date 18 April 2022

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S00209-022-03173-7

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities of curves, local rings (14H20) Jacobians, Prym varieties (14H40) Special divisors on curves (gonality, Brill-Noether theory) (14H51)

arXiv classification

math.AG

Abstract: Let $X$ be a semistable curve and $L$ a line bundle whose multidegree is uniform, i.e., in the range between those of the structure sheaf and the dualizing sheaf of $X$. We establish an upper bound for $h^0(X,L)$, which generalizes the classic Clifford inequality for smooth curves. The bound depends on the total degree of $L$ and connectivity properties of the dual graph of $X$. It is sharp, in the sense that on any semistable curve there exist line bundles with uniform multidegree that achieve the bound.

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