%0 Journal Article %T Generic hyperplane section of curves and an application to regularity bounds in positive characteristic %A Edoardo Ballico %A Chikashi Miyazaki %J Mathematics %D 1998 %I arXiv %X This paper investigates the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of the generic hyperplane section of projective curves in positive characteristic case, and yields an application to a sharp bound on the regularity for nondegenerate projective varieties. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9809042v1