On plane sextics with double singular points

DOI10.2140/PJM.2013.265.327MaRDI QIDQ387718zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alex Degtyarev

Publication date 23 December 2013

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.1250

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental groupplane sextictetragonal curvetorus type

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coverings of curves, fundamental group (14H30) Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus (14H45) Plane and space curves (14H50)

Abstract: We compute the fundamental groups of five maximizing sextics with double singular points only; in four cases, the groups are as expected. The approach used would apply to other sextics as well, given their equations.

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Any plane sextic having simple singularities (with few explicit exceptions) is conjectured to degenerate to a maximizing one, i.e., to a sextic having total Milnor number 19; it is hence essential to compute the fundamental groups of the maximizing sextics. At present the groups of all irreducible sextics with a singular point of multiplicity three or higher are known (see [\textit{A. Degtyarev}, Topology of algebraic curves. An approach via dessins d'enfants. de Gruyter Studies in Mathematics 44. Berlin: de Gruyter (2012; Zbl 1273.14065)]). In this paper the author computes the fundamental group of five maximizing sextics with only double singular points; in four cases the groups are as expected. His approach relies on the classical Zariski-van Kampen method (expressing the fundamental group of a curve in terms of its braid monodromy with respect to an appropriate pencil of lines) and would apply to other sextics as well, given their equations.

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