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Abstract The Brill–Noether theory of curves plays a fundamental role in the theory of curves and their moduli and has been intensively studied since the 19th century. In contrast, Brill–Noether theory for higher dimensional varieties is less understood. It is hard to determine when Brill–Noether loci are nonempty and these loci can be reducible and of larger than the expected dimension. Let $$E$$ be a semistable sheaf on $${\mathbb{P}}^{2}$$. In this paper, we give an upper bound $$\beta _{r, \mu }$$ for $$h^{0}(E)$$ in terms of the rank $$r$$ and the slope $$\mu $$ of $$E$$. We show that the bound is achieved precisely when $$E$$ is a twist of a Steiner bundle. We classify the sheaves $$E$$ such that $$h^{0}(E)$$ is within $$\lfloor \mu (E) \rfloor + 1$$ of $$\beta _{r, \mu }$$. We determine the nonemptiness, irreducibility and dimension of the Brill–Noether loci in the moduli spaces of sheaves on $${\mathbb{P}}^{2}$$ with $$h^{0}(E)$$ in this range. When they are proper subvarieties, these Brill–Noether loci are irreducible though almost always of larger than the expected dimension.
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The moduli spaces of sheaves on surfaces, pathologies and brill-noether problems
Brill-Noether Theorems play a central role in the birational geometry of moduli spaces of sheaves on surfaces. This paper surveys recent work on the Brill-Noether problem for rational surfaces. In order to highlight some of the difficulties for more general surfaces, we show that moduli spaces of rank 2 sheaves on very general hypersurfaces of degree d in P3 can have arbitrarily many irreducible components as d tends to infinity.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1664303
- PAR ID:
- 10178882
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Abel symposia
- Volume:
- 14
- ISSN:
- 2193-2808
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 75-105
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94881-2_4
