Singularities and genus of the k-ellipse

DOI10.1016/J.JSC.2020.06.009MaRDI QIDQ2229720zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yuhan Jiang, Weiqiao Han

Publication date 18 February 2021

Published in Journal of Symbolic Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01414

zbMATH Keywords

semidefinite programmingalgebraic geometryalgebraic curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex programming (90C25) Semidefinite programming (90C22) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Real algebraic sets (14P05) Geometric group theory (20F65)

Abstract: A k-ellipse is a plane curve consisting of all points whose distances from k fixed foci sum to a constant. We determine the singularities and genus of its Zariski closure in the complex projective plane. The paper resolves an open problem stated by Nie, Parrilo and Sturmfels in 2008.

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