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On the pole placement problem for linear systems of arbitrary genus. (English) Zbl 0956.14023
V. G. Lomadze introduced [Acta Appl. Math. 34, No. 3, 305-312 (1994; Zbl 0798.93027)] linear systems associated to divisors and vector bundles on $$X$$ of genus $$g>0$$. We consider the pole placement problem in the setting and with the notation of this cited paper. Let $$F$$ be a rank $$m$$ effective vector bundle on an arbitrary complete, smooth, and irreducible algebraic curve $$X$$ of genus $$g>0$$; the pole placement problem (or PPP for short) asks if there is always a completely reachable linear system $$s$$ with $$m$$ inputs, $$F$$ as associated Martin-Hermann vector bundle and the determinant $$\text{ch}(F)$$ of $$F$$ as characteristic divisor $$c(s)$$.
In this paper for every integer $$m\geq 2$$ and for every such curve $$X$$ we will give a negative solution to PPP for the case of $$m$$ inputs. Recall that for genus 0 PPP has always a solution. For the case of one input (i.e. the rank $$m=1$$ case) V. G. Lomadze (loc. cit.; §7, theorem 3) has shown that PPP has always a solution. Indeed we will show that for $$g>0$$ and $$m\geq 2$$ the non solubility of PPP is rather the norm, not an exception. We will use heavily the notions introduced in the paper cited above.
MSC:
 14H60 Vector bundles on curves and their moduli 93B27 Geometric methods 14C20 Divisors, linear systems, invertible sheaves 93B55 Pole and zero placement problems 93C05 Linear systems in control theory
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