Codimension 1 subvarieties and real gonality of real curves
Edoardo Ballico (2003)
Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal
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Let be the moduli space of smooth complex projective curves of genus . Here we prove that the subset of formed by all curves for which some Brill-Noether locus has dimension larger than the expected one has codimension at least two in . As an application we show that if is defined over , then there exists a low degree pencil defined over .