ON RAMIFIED COVERS OF THE PROJECTIVE PLANE I: INTERPRETING SEGRE'S THEORY (WITH AN APPENDIX BY EUGENII SHUSTIN)

DOI10.1142/S0129167X11006945zbMATH Open1233.14022arXiv0903.3359OpenAlexW1990713935MaRDI QIDQ3009325FDOQ3009325

Maxim Leyenson, Michael Friedman, Eugenii I. Shustin

Publication date: 24 June 2011

Published in: International Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study ramified covers of the projective plane. Given a smooth projective surface S and a generic enough projection of S to the projective plane, we get a cover of the plane ramified over a plane curve. The branch curve is usually singular, but is classically known to have only cusps and nodes as singularities for a generic projection. Several questions arise. First, what is the_geography_ of branch curves among all nodal-cuspidal curves? Second: what is the_geometry_ of branch curves? In other words, how can one distinguish a branch curve from a non-branch curve with the same numerical invariants? For example, a plane sextic curve with six cusps is known to be a branch curve of a generic projection iff its six cusps lie on a conic curve, i.e., form a special 0-cycle on the plane. We start with reviewing what is known about the answers to these two questions, mentioning both simple and some non-trivial results. We continue with study of classical work of Beniamino Segre which gives a complete answer to the second question in the case when S is a smooth surface in a three-dimensional projective space. We give an interpretation of Segre's work in terms of a study of Picard group of 0-cycles on a singular plane curve B. We also review examples of small degree. The Appendix written by Eugenii Shustin shows the existence of many new Zariski pairs of plane curves. We hope to continue this paper with a generalization to the case of smooth surfaces in a projective space of any dimension.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3359

zbMATH Keywords

Zariski pairsadjoint curvesbranch curve\(0\)-cycles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coverings in algebraic geometry (14E20) Special divisors on curves (gonality, Brill-Noether theory) (14H51) Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus (14H45)

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