A note on Nikulin surfaces and their moduli spaces

Abstract

We study some natural linear systems carried by polarized Nikulin surfaces of genus g. We determine their positivity and establish their Brill-Noether theory. As an application, we compute the class of some natural effective divisors associated to these linear systems on the moduli space of Nikulin surfaces, relying upon recent work of Farkas and Rim\'{a}nyi.