Linear stability and stability of Lazarsfeld-Mukai bundles

Abstract

Let $C$ be a smooth irreducible projective curve and let $(L,H^0(C,L))$ be a complete and generated linear series on $C$. Denote by $M_L$ the kernel of the evaluation map $H^0(C,L)\otimes {\mathcal{O}}_C\to L$. The exact sequence $0\to M_L\to H^0(C,L)\otimes {\mathcal{O}}_C\to L\to 0$ fits into a commutative diagram that we call the Butler's diagram. This diagram induces in a natural way a multiplication map on global sections $m_W:W^{\vee }\otimes H^0(K_C)\to H^0(S^{\vee }\otimes K_C)$, where $W\subseteq H^0(C,L)$ is a subspace and $S^{\vee }$ is the dual of a subbundle $S\subset M_L$. When the subbundle $S$ is a stable bundle, we show that the map $m_W$ is surjective. When $C$ is a Brill-Noether general curve, we use the surjectivity of $m_W$ to give another proof on the semistability of $M_L$, moreover we fill up a gap of an incomplete argument by Butler: With the surjectivity of $m_W$ we give conditions to determinate the stability of $M_L$, and such conditions implies the well known stability conditions for $M_L$ stated precisely by Butler. Finally we obtain the equivalence between the stability of $M_L$ and the linear stability of $(L,H^0(L))$ on $\gamma$-gonal curves.

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