Galois points for a plane curve and its dual curve

DOI10.4171/RSMUP/132-5MaRDI QIDQ481026zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Satoru Fukasawa, Kei Miura

Publication date 12 December 2014

Published in Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico della Università di Padova (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.00935

zbMATH Keywords

dual curveGalois pointplane curveself-dual curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Separable extensions, Galois theory (12F10) Algebraic functions and function fields in algebraic geometry (14H05) Plane and space curves (14H50)

Abstract: Let $Csubsetmathbb{P}^2$ be a plane curve of degree at least three. A point $P$ in projective plane is said to be Galois if the function field extension induced by the projection $p{i}_P:Cdashrightarrowmathbb{P}^1$ from $P$ is Galois. Further we say that a Galois point is extendable if any birational transformation induced by the Galois group can be extended to a linear transformation of the projective plane. This article is the second part of [2], where we showed that the Galois group at an extendable Galois point $P$ has a natural action on the dual curve $C^{\ast }subsetmathbb{P}^{2\ast }$ which preserves the fibers of the projection $p{i}_{overlineP}$ from a certain point $overlinePinmathbb{P}^{2\ast }$. In this article we improve such a result, and we investigate the Galois group of $p{i}_{overlineP}$. In particular, we study both when $overlineP$ is a Galois point, and when $mdeg(p{i}_P)$ is prime and $mdeg(p{i}_{overlineP})=2mdeg(p{i}_P)$. As an application, we determine the number of points at which the Galois groups are certain fixed groups for the dual curve of a cubic curve.

Review text

Let \(K\) be an algebraically closed field and \(C\) be a plane curve defined over \(K\). A point \(P\) in the projective plane is said to be a Galois point for \(C\) if the function field extension induced by the projection from \(P\) is Galois. The main theorem of the paper states that, if \(C\) is smooth and of degree \(d\geq 3\), then the dual curve \(C^*\) of \(C\) has no Galois points. Clearly, this implies that the existence of Galois points for both \(C\) and \(C^*\) can only happen for singular curves. Another issue of the paper regards extendable Galois points. Call \(G_P\) the Galois group of the function field extension associated to a Galois point for a curve \(C\). This Galois points is called \textit{extendable} if any birational transformation induced by \(G_P\) can be extended to a birational transformation of \({\mathbb P}^2\). Consider again curves of degree \(d\geq 3\). The second main statement of the paper says that, if both \(C\) and \(C^*\) have extendable Galois points, then \(C\) must be projectively equivalent to the curve \(X^d-Y^eZ^{d-e}=0\) for some \(e\geq 1\). In particular, this implies that \(C\) is self-dual.

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