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Guide for the Reader

List of Symbols

CHAPTER I

Preliminaries

l. Divisors and Line Bundles on Curves

2. The Riemann-Roch and Duality Theorems

3. Abel's Theorem

4. Abelian Varieties and the Theta Function

5. Poincar6's Formula and Riemann's Theorem

6. A Few Words About Moduli

Bibliographical Notes

Exercises

 A. Elementary Exercises on Plane Curves

 B. Projections

 C. Ramification and Plucker Formulas

 D. Miscellaneous Exercises on Linear Systems

 E. Weierstrass Points

 F. Automorphisms

 G. Period Matrices

 H. Elementary Properties of Abelian Varieties

APPENDIX A

The Riemann-Roch Theorem, Hodge Theorem, and

Adjoint Linear Systems

l. Applications of the Discussion About Plane Curves with Nodes

2. Adjoint Conditions in General

CHAPTER 11

Determinantal Varieties

1. Tangent Cones to Analytic Spaces

2. Generic Determinantal Varieties: Geometric Description

3. The Ideal of a Generic Determinantal Variety

4. Determinantai Varieties and Porteous' Formula

 (i) Sylvester's Determinant

 (ii) The Top Chern Class of a Tensor Product

 (iii) Porteous' Formula

 (iv) What Has Been Proved

5. A Few Applications and Examples

 Bibliographical Notes

 Exercises

 A. Symmetric Bilinear Maps

 B. Quadrics

 C. Applications of Porteous' Formula

 D. Chern Numbers of Kernel Bundles

CHAPTER I11

Introduction to Special Divisors

1. Clifford's Theorem and the General Position Theorem

2. Castelnuovo's Bound, Noether's Theorem, and Extremal Curves

3. The Enriques-Babbage Theorem and Petri's Analysis of the Canonical Ideal

 Bibliographical Notes

 Exercises

 A. Symmetric Products of pi

 B. Refinements of Clifford's Theorem

 C. Complete Intersections

 D. Projective Normality (I)

 E. Castelnuovo's Bound on k-Normality

 F. Intersections of Quadrics

 G. Space Curves of Maximum Genus

 H. G. Gherardelli's Theorem

 I. Extremal Curves

 J. Nearly Castelnuovo Curves

 K. Castelnuovo's Theorem

 L. Secant Planes

CHAPTER IV

The Varieties of Special Linear Series on a Curve

1. The BrilI-Noether Matrix and the Variety C,

2. The Universal Divisor and the Poincar6 Line Bundles

3. The Varieties W[(C) and G(C) Parametrizing Special Linear Series on a

 Curve

4. The Zariski Tangent Spaces to G(C) and W(C)

5. First Consequences of the Infinitesimal Study of GC) and WC)

 Biographical Notes

 Exercises

 A. Elementary Exercises on 0

 B. An Interesting Identification

 C. Tangent Spaces to Wt(C)

 D. Mumford's Theorem for.qJ's

 E. Martens-Mumford Theorem for Birational Morphisms

 F. Linear Series on Some Complete Intersections

 G. Keem's Theorems

CHAPTER V

The Basic Results of the Brill-Noether Theory

 Bibliographical Notes

 Exercises

 A. W (C) on a Curve C of Genus 6

 B. Embeddings of Small Degree

 C. Projective Normality (II)

 D. The Difference Map Oa: Cd x Cd -, J(C) (I)

CHAPTER VI

The Geometric Theory of Riemann's Theta Function

1. The Riemann Singularity Theorem

2. Kempf's Generalization of the Riemann Singularity Theorem

3. The Torelli Theorem

4. The Theory of Andreotti and Mayer

 Bibliographical Notes

 Exercises

 A. The Difference Map O (II)

 B. Refined Torelli Theorems

 C. Translates of WO- 1, Their Intersections, and the Toreili Theorem

 D. Prill's Problem

 E. Another Proof of the Torelli Theorem

 F. Curves of Genus 5

 G. Accola's Theorem

 H. The Difference Map a (llI)

 I. Geometry of the Abelian Sum Map u in Low Genera

APPENDIX B

Theta Characteristics

1. Norm Maps

2. The Weil Pairing

3. Theta Characteristics

4. Quadratic Forms Over Z/2

APPENDIX C

Prym Varieties

 Exercises

CHAPTER Vll

The Existence and Connectedness Theorems for PWd(C)

1. Ample Vector Bundles

2. The Existence Theorem

3. The Conneetedness Theorem

4. The Class of W,(C)

5. The Class of C

 Bibliographical Notes

 Exercises

 A. The Connectedness Theorem

 B. Analytic Cohomology of Cd, d < 2g - 2

 C. Excess Linear Series

CHAPTER VIII

Enumerative Geometry of Curves

1. The Grothendieck-Riemann-Roch Formula

2. Three Applications of the Grothendicck-Riemann-Roch Formula

3. The Secant Plane Formula: Special Cases

4. The General Secant Plane Formula

5. Diagonals in the Symmetric Product

 Bibliographical Notes

 Exercises

 A. Secant Planes to Canonical Curves

 B. Weierstrass Pairs

 C. Miscellany

 D. Push-Pull Formulas for Symmetric Products

 E. Reducibility of Wg-l n (Wg-1 + u) (II)

 F. Every Curve Has a Base-Point-Free g1- 1

Bibliography

Index