Linear orbits of arbitrary plane curves.

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1030132706MaRDI QIDQ5954553zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paolo Aluffi, Carel Faber

Publication date 4 February 2002

Published in Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9912092

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Plane and space curves (14H50) Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Enumerative problems (combinatorial problems) in algebraic geometry (14N10)

Abstract: The `linear orbit' of a plane curve of degree $d$ is its orbit in $P^{d(d+3)/2}$ under the natural action of $PGL(3)$. In this paper we obtain an algorithm computing the degree of the closure of the linear orbit of an arbitrary plane curve, and give explicit formulas for plane curves with irreducible singularities. The main tool is an intersection@-theoretic study of the projective normal cone of a scheme determined by the curve in the projective space $P^8$ of $3imes3$ matrices; this expresses the degree of the orbit closure in terms of the degrees of suitable loci related to the limits of the curve. These limits, and the degrees of the corresponding loci, have been established in previous work.

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