Green's conjecture for canonical curves

Let XPg1X\subseteq \mathbf{P}^{g-1} be a non-hyperelliptic canonical curve of genus gg. Its Clifford index is

Cliff(X)=min{d(φ)2r(φ)φ:XPr is non-constant and d(φ)g1}.\operatorname{Cliff}(X)=\min\{d(\varphi)-2r(\varphi)\mid \varphi:X\to\mathbf{P}^r\text{ is non-constant and }d(\varphi)\leq g-1\}.

Here r(φ)r(\varphi) is the dimension of the linear span of the image and d(φ)d(\varphi) is the degree of the map. Green's conjecture. The Clifford index of XX is equal to the least integer pp for which Property (Np)(N_p) fails for XX. This predicts the precise first failure of the linear-syzygy properties of a canonical curve, extending Petri's theorem; its general form remains open, although many cases are known.

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Lawrence Ein and Robert Lazarsfeld, “Tangent developable surfaces and the equations defining algebraic curves”, arXiv:1906.05429 (2019).

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