On cubics and quartics through a canonical curve
Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze, Série 5, Tome 2 (2003) no. 4, pp. 803-822.

We construct families of quartic and cubic hypersurfaces through a canonical curve, which are parametrized by an open subset in a grassmannian and a Flag variety respectively. Using G. Kempf's cohomological obstruction theory, we show that these families cut out the canonical curve and that the quartics are birational (via a blowing-up of a linear subspace) to quadric bundles over the projective plane, whose Steinerian curve equals the canonical curve

Classification : 14H60, 14H42 
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Pauly, Christian. On cubics and quartics through a canonical curve. Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze, Série 5, Tome 2 (2003) no. 4, pp. 803-822. http://archive.numdam.org/item/ASNSP_2003_5_2_4_803_0/

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