Refining Castelnuovo-Halphen bounds

Abstract: Fix integers

r, d, s, p i

with

r g e q 4

,

d g g s

,

r - 1 l e q s l e q 2 r - 4

, and

p i g e q 0

. Refining classical results for the genus of a projective curve, we exhibit a sharp upper bound for the arithmetic genus

p_{a} (C)

of an integral projective curve

C s u b s e t m a t h b b P^{r}

of degree

d

, assuming that

C

is not contained in any surface of degree

< s

, and not contained in any surface of degree

s

with sectional genus

> p i

. Next we discuss other types of bound for

p_{a} (C)

, involving conditions on the entire Hilbert polynomial of the integral surfaces on which

C

may lie.

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