On the distribution of Weierstrass points on Gorenstein quintic curves (Q301254)

The authors of this paper deal with Weierstrass points, not for smooth curves, but for Gorenstein curves. Then, the canonical sheaf is replaced by the invertible dualizing sheaf, and the singular points of a Gorenstein curve are Weierstrass points. The paper is devoted to build a technique for computing the distribution of the Weierstrass points on the members of a \(1\)-parameter family \(C_a, a \in \mathbb{C}\), of Gorenstein quintic curves with respect to the dualizing sheaf \(\mathcal{K}_{C_a}\). Once this technique is developed and shown to be correct, it is applied to two examples, namely the families of quintic curves defined by the equations \[ \begin{aligned} C_a: F_a(X,Y,Z) &= Y^5 - X(X^2 - Z^2)(X^2 - a^2Z^2),\\ C_a: F_a(X,Y,Z) &= Y^3Z^2 - X(X^2 - Z^2)(X^2 - a^2Z^2). \end{aligned} \] These families differ because the first one has only singular points for some values of \(a\), whilst the second one has a singular point for each value of the parameter \(a\).