{ "id": "1409.4678", "version": "v1", "published": "2014-09-16T15:46:26.000Z", "updated": "2014-09-16T15:46:26.000Z", "title": "Characterization of curves in $C^{(2)}$", "authors": [ "Meritxell Sáez" ], "categories": [ "math.AG" ], "abstract": "In this paper we characterize the irreducible curves lying in $C^{(2)}$. We prove that a curve $B$ has a degree one morphism to $C^{(2)}$ with image a curve of degree $d$ with irreducible preimage in $C\\times C$ if and only if there exists an irreducible smooth curve $D$ and morphisms from $D$ to $C$ and $B$ of degrees $d$ and $2$ respectively forming a diagram which does not reduce.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2014-09-16T15:46:26.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "characterization", "irreducible smooth curve", "irreducible curves", "irreducible preimage" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2014arXiv1409.4678S" } } }