{ "id": "1102.3156", "version": "v1", "published": "2011-02-15T19:02:24.000Z", "updated": "2011-02-15T19:02:24.000Z", "title": "The ideal of curves of genus 2 on rational normal scrolls", "authors": [ "Andrea Hofmann" ], "comment": "16 pages", "categories": [ "math.AG" ], "abstract": "Given a smooth curve of genus 2 embedded in P^(d-2) with a complete linear system of degree d>=6, we list all types of rational normal scrolls arising from linear systems g^1_2 and g^1_3 on C. Furthermore, we give a description of the ideal of such a curve of genus 2 embedded in P^(d-2) as a sum of the ideal of the two-dimensional scroll defined by the unique g^1_2 on C and the ideal of a three-dimensional scroll arising from a g^1_3 on C and not containing the scroll defined by the g^1_2 on C.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2011-02-15T19:02:24.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "complete linear system", "rational normal scrolls arising", "two-dimensional scroll", "smooth curve" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 16, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2011arXiv1102.3156H" } } }