%0 Journal Article %T On cubics and quartics through a canonical curve %A Christian Pauly %J Mathematics %D 2003 %I arXiv %X 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. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0304422v1