The discriminant of a space curve is stable

Paul, Sean

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The discriminant of a space curve is stable
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 143 (2015), 3211-3214 Request permission

Abstract:

We prove that the discriminant of a nonsingular space curve of genus $g\geq 2$ is stable with respect to the standard action of the special linear group.

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