Syzygy shifting for canonical bundles on symmetric powers

Let CC be a smooth complex projective curve of genus g2g\geq 2, let CkC_k denote its kk-th symmetric power, and let KCK_C be the canonical bundle. Say that a line bundle LL on CC satisfies syzygy shifting to dimension kk if, whenever LL has property NpN_p, the associated line bundle

NL:=det(L[k])N_L:=\operatorname{det}(L^{[k]})

on CkC_k has property Np(k1)N_{p-(k-1)}. Here property NpN_p means that LL has linear syzygies to order p0p\geq 0. Syzygy-shifting conjecture. The canonical bundle KCK_C satisfies syzygy shifting to dimension kk when

Cliff(C)k.\operatorname{Cliff}(C)\geq k.

This proposes that the syzygetic behavior of the canonical curve shifts predictably to canonical embeddings of symmetric powers, extending the projective-normality result for C2C_2 and the relationship between Clifford index and syzygies. The supplied text gives no resolution or partial cases, so the conjecture remains open.

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John Sheridan, “Projective normality of canonical symmetric squares”, arXiv:2211.08313 (2022).

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