The gonality of singular plane curves. II (Q2850563)

Let \(C\) be an integral plane curve of degree \(d \geq 6\) and \(X\) its normalization. Let \(k\) be the maximal multiplicity of a point of \(C\) and \(\gamma\) the gonality of \(X\). Let \(g\) be the genus of \(X\). Set \(\delta := (d-1)(d-2)/2 -g\). Obviously \(\gamma \geq d-k\) and a huge number of papers give conditions assuring that equality holds in some cases (e.g., [\textit{M. Coppens}, Math. Ann. 289, No. 1, 89--93 (1991; Zbl 0697.14019)], [\textit{M. Coppens} and \textit{T. Kato}, Manuscr. Math. 70, No. 1, 5--25 (1990; Zbl 0725.14005)], [\textit{M. Ohkouchi} and \textit{F. Sakai}, Tokyo J. Math. 27, No. 1, 137--147 (2007; Zbl 1060.14047)], [\textit{R. Paoletti}, Math. Ann. 303, No. 1, 109--123 (1995; Zbl 0835.14005)], \textit{A. H. W. Schmitt}, Arch. Math. 74, 104--110 (2000; Zbl 1060.14514)], [\textit{F. Serrano}, Math. Ann. 277, 395--413 (1987; Zbl 0595.14005)]).NEWLINENEWLINEFix an integer \(q\geq 0\).NEWLINENEWLINEIn the paper under review the author gives conditions assuring that \(\gamma \geq d-k-q\). Let \(k_1 \geq \cdots \geq k_n\) be the multiplicities of the singular points of \(C\), counting also the infinitely near singular points and setting \(k_i:= 1\) for all \(i>n\). Set \(\sigma := (k_2/k)+(k_3/k) +(k_4/k)\). \(k_0:= \max \{\lfloor d/k\rfloor, 3\}\) if \(d/k \geq \sigma -q/k\) and \(k_0:= \max \{\lfloor d/k\rfloor ,2\}\) otherwise. Set \(V:= \sum _{i=1}^{n} m_i(m_i-2)/4\). In particular he proves that \(\gamma \geq d-k-q\) if the following conditions are satisfied: {\parindent=6mm \begin{itemize}\item[(A)] \(\delta \leq \lfloor d/2\rfloor \lceil d/2\rceil -(d-k-q)\), \item[(B)] \(\delta \leq k_0(d-k_0) -(d-k-q) +V\). NEWLINENEWLINE\end{itemize}} He proves that if \(k=2,3\), then Condition (B) may be omitted. He gives examples with \(k\geq 5\) for which Condition (B) cannot be dropped. He also has other results more difficult to be stated, but that cover a huge number of cases.NEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 1266.14004].