At a point of a smooth projective curve, a positive integer is a Weierstrass gap when no rational function has a pole of order exactly at and no other poles. Equivalently,
At every point of a smooth projective curve of genus , exactly positive integers are Weierstrass gap. Indeed, each quotient has dimension zero or one, while Riemann--Roch gives for all .
On a genus-two smooth projective curve, the gap set at any point is either or . The integer is always a gap on a positive-genus curve. If is not a gap, then must be a gap, since pole orders are closed under addition and would otherwise generate every integer at least two.

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