Limits of PGL(3)-translates of plane curves. II (Q847141)

In a series of two papers the authors describe the closure of the orbit of a plane curve under the action of the projective linear group. The knowledge of the boundary is useful for computing several characteristic numbers of families of plane curves. To this task, it is essential to understand the structure of the boundary \textit{as a cycle}, in the space \(\mathbb P^D\), parametrizing plane curves of degree \(d\). In the first paper [J. Pure Appl. Algebra 214, No. 5, 526--547 (2010; Zbl 1189.14033)], the authors described set-theoretically which limits one gets when the matrix of the linear map becomes singular. It turns out that the boundary components of the limits \(C\) depend on five geometric features of \(C\). In the paper under review (the second one in the sequel) the authors study carefully the algebraic structure of the blowing up that solves the singularities of the rational maps \(f\) from the space of matrices \(\mathbb P^8\) to \(\mathbb P^D\), which defines the orbits. This procedure allows to compute, for each component, the contribution of the aforementioned features to the multiplicity of its scheme structure in the boundary, completing the description of the boundary as a cycle.