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On the gonality of graph curves

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A genus g graph curve in the sense of Bayer and Eisenbud is a genus g stable curve (hence nodal) with 2g − 2 irreducible components, each of then smooth and rational and intersecting exactly 3 other components. Here, we study the existence of spanned or very ample non-special line bundles on X whose restriction to each irreducible component of X has degree 1.

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E. Ballico was partially supported by MIUR and GNSAGA of INdAM (Italy).

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Ballico, E. On the gonality of graph curves. manuscripta math. 129, 169–180 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00229-009-0253-8

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