A codimension 2 component of the Gieseker-Petri locus
24 Feb 2020
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Lelli-Chiesa Margherita·
We show that the Brill-Noether locus M^3_{18,16} is an irreducible component
of the Gieseker-Petri locus in genus 18 having codimension 2 in the moduli
space of curves. This result disproves a conjecture predicting that the
Gieseker-Petri locus is always divisorial.