Farkas's codimension conjecture for syzygy strata of curves

Let Mg0\mathcal{M}_g^0 be the open moduli space under consideration, and let Zg,i\mathcal{Z}_{g,i} be the locus of curves CC for which there exists a pencil AWk1(C)A\in W^1_k(C) such that the residual pair (C,KCA)(C,K_C\otimes A^{\vee}) fails property (Ni)(N_i). Farkas's codimension conjecture for syzygy strata. For an even genus g6i+10g\geq 6i+10, the stratum Zg,i\mathcal{Z}_{g,i} is a proper subvariety of Mg0\mathcal{M}_g^0. In particular, when g=6i+10g=6i+10, the stratum Zg,i\mathcal{Z}_{g,i} is a divisor on Mg0\mathcal{M}_g^0. The claim predicts the expected properness of these residual-pencil syzygy strata and, in the balanced case, their divisorial nature.

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Gavril Farkas, “Syzygies of curves and the effective cone of M_g”, arXiv:math/0503498 (2006).

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