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Aug 18, 2014 at 9:56 vote accept Alexander Braverman
Aug 17, 2014 at 9:12 answer added Vivek Shende timeline score: 4
Aug 17, 2014 at 6:40 comment added Edgardo I guess this might be the motivation of your question, but for a curve over a finite field this is a consequence of reduction theory, i.e. I think it is precisely the translation of the fact that a "Siegel set" contains a fundamental domain. For that, there is an article of Springer "Reduction theory over global fields."
Aug 17, 2014 at 5:55 comment added Alexander Braverman No, the point is that if $E$ has rank 2 then the claim is that we can find a line subbundle $E_1$ of $E$ such that $deg(E_1)-deg(E/E_1)$ is not too small (I think you can always make it smaller than $g$ in this case) -- this is true even when the degree of $E$ is very negative.
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Aug 17, 2014 at 1:33 comment added Tony Pantev I must be missing something, we have rank two (semi-)stable bundles of arbitrary negative degree. So you can not bound the degree of the line sub-bundles from below universally. Do you want a bound that depends on $g$, $n$, and the degree?
Aug 16, 2014 at 15:10 comment added Alexander Braverman Yes, if you wish (otherwise the question is empty)
Aug 16, 2014 at 14:26 comment added user54268 Do you mean to assume $n > 1$?
Aug 16, 2014 at 11:38 comment added Alexander Braverman Well, it has something to do with Harder-Narasimhan, but it is not quite that. For example, if $n=2$ then the statement is that any rank 2 bundle has a line sub-bundle whose degree is not too small.
Aug 16, 2014 at 11:32 comment added Francesco Polizzi This reminds me the Harder-Narashiman filtration, where $$\mu(E_i/E_{i-1}) > \mu(E_{i+1}/E_i)$$ and $\mu(F) :=\deg(F) / \textrm{rank}(F)$ is the slope.
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