Here we study the Brill–Noether theory of “extremal” Cornalba’s theta-characteristics on stable curves C of genus g, where “extremal” means that they are line bundles on a quasi-stable model of C with #(Sing(C)) exceptional components.
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Edoardo Ballico. Components with the expected codimension in the moduli scheme of stable spin curves. Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, sectio A – Mathematica, Tome 69 (2015) . http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.ojs-doi-10_17951_a_2015_69_1_1/
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