IJPAM: Volume 52, No. 2 (2009)
LIMIT OF 
-GONAL CURVES AND
TOPOLOGICAL TYPES OF STABLE CURVES
-GONAL CURVES AND
TOPOLOGICAL TYPES OF STABLE CURVES
E. Ballico
Department of Mathematics
University of Trento
380 50 Povo (Trento) - Via Sommarive, 14, ITALY
e-mail: ballico@science.unitn.it
Department of Mathematics
University of Trento
380 50 Povo (Trento) - Via Sommarive, 14, ITALY
e-mail: ballico@science.unitn.it
Abstract.Here we give examples of topological types for genus 
stable curves such that no (or some) stable curve with that topological type is in the closure of the set of all smooth -gonal curves.
Received: March 3, 2009
AMS Subject Classification: 14H10, 14H51
Key Words and Phrases: stable curve, admissible covering, gonality
Source: International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
ISSN: 1311-8080
Year: 2009
Volume: 52
Issue: 2