Base curves of multicanonical systems on threefolds
The base points of the system of polar curves of an irreducible algebroid plane curve with general moduli are determined. As consequences a lower bound for the Tjurina number and many continuous analytic invariants of the curve are found.
We take up the study of the Brill-Noether loci , where is a smooth projective variety of dimension , , and is an integer. By studying the infinitesimal structure of these loci and the Petri map (defined in analogy with the case of curves), we obtain lower bounds for , where is a divisor that moves linearly on a smooth projective variety of maximal Albanese dimension. In this way we sharpen the results of [Xi] and we generalize them to dimension . In the -dimensional case we prove an...