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Acta Mathematica Vietnamica

On the gonality sequence of smooth curves: normalizations of singular curves in a quadric surface

icon-email Edoardo Ballico

Abstract

Let C be a smooth curve of genus g. For each positive integer r, the r-gonality dr(C) of C is the minimal integer t such that there is LPict(C) with h0(C,L)=r+1. In this paper, for all g40805 we construct several examples of smooth curves C of genus g with d3(C)/3<d4(C)/4, i.e., for which a slope inequality fails.