%0 Journal Article %T Secant spaces and syzygies of special line bundles on curves %A Marian Aprodu %A Edoardo Sernesi %J Mathematics %D 2014 %I arXiv %R 10.2140/ant.2015.9.585 %X On a special line bundle $L$ on a projective curve $C$ we introduce a geometric condition called $(\Delta_q)$. When $L=K_C$ this condition implies gon$(C) \ge q+2$. For an arbitrary special $L$ we show that $(\Delta_3)$ implies that $L$ has the well-known property $(M_3)$, generalizing a similar result proved by Voisin in the case $L=K_C$. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.2516v1