paracanonical

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

para- +‎ canonical

Adjective[edit]

paracanonical (not comparable)

  1. Outside of a canon of literature
  2. (mathematics) Pertaining to a curve in the linear system of a canonical divisor of an irregular surface and any point on that surface.
    • 2015, Gavril Farkas, Michael Kemeny, “The Prym-Green Conjecture for torsion bundles of high order”, in arXiv[1]:
      The Prym-Green Conjecture predicts that the resolution of a generic n-torsion paracanonical curve of every genus is natural.