Gonericity conjecture for canonical curves

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Let CC be an irreducible, smooth canonical curve of genus gg and linear colength \ell. A curve is goneric when its gonality is +2\ell+2 and

βg2,g1=g2.\beta_{g-2-\ell,g-1-\ell}=g-2-\ell.

Gonericity conjecture. In characteristic zero, CC is +2\ell+2-goneric if and only if

βg2,g1=g2,\beta_{g-2-\ell,g-1-\ell}=g-2-\ell,

unless (g,)=(6,1)(g,\ell)=(6,1) and CC is isomorphic to a smooth plane quintic.

This conjecture proposes that, apart from the stated plane-quintic exception, the relevant Betti-number equality characterizes gonericity. The source gives no resolution status.

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Primary source

Josef Schicho, Frank-Olaf Schreyer and Martin Weimann, “Computational aspects of gonal maps and radical parametrization of curves”, arXiv:1304.2551 (2013).

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