Special Linear Series and Syzygies of Canonical Curves of Genus 9

Abstract: In this thesis we give a complete description of the syzygies of irreducible, nonsingular, canoncial curves

C

of genus 9. This includes a collection of all possible Betti tables for

C

. Moreover a direct correspondence between these Betti tables and the number and types of special linear series on

C

is given. Especially for

o p e r a t o r n a m e C l i f f (C) = 3

the curve

C

is contained in determinantal surface

Y

on a 4-dimensional rational normal scroll

X s u b s e t m a t h b b P^{8}

constructed from a base point free pencil of divisors of degree 5.

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