Weierstrass gap sequence at total inflection points of nodal plane curves

DOI10.21099/TKBJM/1496162458MaRDI QIDQ1340398zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Takao Kato, Marc Coppens

Publication date 19 December 1994

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9204001

zbMATH Keywords

nodesnon-gap sequencesplane curvestotal inflection point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities of curves, local rings (14H20) Riemann surfaces; Weierstrass points; gap sequences (14H55)

Abstract: Let $Gamma$ be a plane curve of degree $d$ with $delta$ ordinary nodes and no other singularities. If $P$ is a smooth point on $Gamma$ then the Weierstrass gap sequence at $P$ is considered as that at the corresponding point on the normalization of $Gamma$. A smooth point $PinGamma$ is called a total inflection point if $i(Gamma,T;P)=d$ where $T$ is the tangent line to $Gamma$ at $P$. There are many possible Weierstrass gap sequences at total inflection points. Our main results are: Among them (1) There exists a pair $(P,Gamma)$ such that the gap sequence at $P$ is the minimal (in the sense of weight). (2) There exists a pair $(P,Gamma)$ such that the gap sequence at $P$ is the maximal (resp. up to 1 maximal). And we characterize these cases in the sense of location of nodes.

Review text

The authors study the non-gap sequences at points in plane curves with only ordinary nodes as singularities. The study is realized at those smooth points which are of total inflection type, that is, the intersection between the tangent line and the curve has index \((d - 2)\), where \(d\) is the degree of the curve. The main results are the existence of pairs \((\Gamma, P)\), where \(P\) is a total inflection point on a plane curve \(\Gamma\) as above, so that the non-gap sequence have a precise description.

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