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Curves of maximum genus in range A and stick-figures

Author(s): Edoardo Ballico; Giorgio Bolondi; Philippe Ellia; Rosa Maria Mirò-Roig
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 349 (1997), 4589-4608.
MSC (1991): Primary 14H50
MathSciNet review: 1422888
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Abstract: In this paper we show the existence of smooth connected space curves not contained in a surface of degree less than $m$, with genus maximal with respect to the degree, in half of the so-called range A. The main tool is a technique of deformation of stick-figures due to G. Fløystad.


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Additional Information:

Edoardo Ballico
Affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Trento, I-38050 Povo (Trento), Italy
Email: ballico@science.unitn.it

Giorgio Bolondi
Affiliation: Istituto di Matematica e Fisica, Università di Sassari, Via Vienna 2, I-07100 Sassari, Italy
Email: bolondi@science.unitn.it

Philippe Ellia
Affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Ferrara, Via Machiavelli 35, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
Email: phe@dns.unife.it

Rosa Maria Mirò-Roig
Affiliation: Departimento Algebra y Geometrìa, Facultad de Matemàticas, Universidad de Barcelona, 08007 Barcelona, Spain
Email: miro@cerber.ub.es

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-97-01917-X
PII: S 0002-9947(97)01917-X
Keywords: Stick-figures, maximum genus
Received by editor(s): March 11, 1996
Copyright of article: Copyright 1997, American Mathematical Society




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