Green's conjecture on graded Betti numbers of curves
Let be a curve of genus . For a divisor on of degree , let denote a subspace of the Riemann–Roch space of dimension , and let be the corresponding graded Betti number. Green's conjecture. One has if and only if there exists a divisor on of degree such that a subspace of satisfies , , and . This conjecture relates the graded Betti numbers of a curve to the existence of linear series such as a , and is used in studying the complex gonality of modular curves. The source does not provide enough information here to determine whether the conjecture is open or resolved.
References
Primary source
Petar Orlić, “Tetragonal modular quotients of X_0(N)”, arXiv:2511.13230 (2025).
Additional references
27 papers in this index state this conjecture (1998–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2510.22291, arXiv:2510.01908, arXiv:2407.14512, arXiv:2404.08014, arXiv:2311.09955, arXiv:2207.11650, arXiv:1912.05998, arXiv:1804.08011, arXiv:1803.10481, arXiv:1711.04463, arXiv:1703.10203, arXiv:1703.08056, and 14 more.
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