TY - INPR A1 - Bud, Andrei Viorel A1 - Haburcak, Richard T1 - Maximal Brill-Noether loci via degenerations and double covers T2 - arXiv N2 - Using limit linear series on chains of curves, we show that closures of certain Brill-Noether loci contain a product of pointed Brill-Noether loci of small codimension. As a result, we obtain new non-containments of Brill-Noether loci, in particular that dimensionally expected non-containments hold for expected maximal Brill-Noether loci. Using these degenerations, we also give a new proof that Brill-Noether loci with expected codimension −ρ≤⌈g/2⌉ have a component of the expected dimension. Additionally, we obtain new non-containments of Brill-Noether loci by considering the locus of the source curves of unramified double covers. Y1 - 2024 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/85748 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-857480 UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15066v1 IS - 2404.15066v1 PB - arXiv ER -