Degenerations of Planar Linear Systems

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Abstract: Fixing n general points pi in the plane, what is the dimension of the space of plane curves of degree d having multiplicity mi at pi for each i? In this article we propose an approach to attack this problem, and demonstrate it by successfully computing this dimension for all n and for mi constant, at most 3. This application, while previously known (see cite{hirschowitz1}), demonstrates the utility of our approach, which is based on an analysis of the corresponding linear system on a degeneration of the plane itself, leading to a simple recursion for these dimensions. We also obtain results in the ``quasi-homogeneous case when all the multiplicities are equal except one; this is the natural family to consider in the recursion.




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