A Viro-Zvonilov-type inequality for Q-flexible curves of odd degree

DOI10.2140/PJM.2024.328.157MaRDI QIDQ6131697zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 18 April 2024

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.05323

algebraic curves double branched covers flexible curves Hilbert's 16th problem nonorientable surfaces

Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus (14H45) Topology of real algebraic varieties (14P25) Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12) Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25)

Abstract: We define an analogue of the Arnol'd surface for odd degree flexible curves, and we use it to double branch cover totally flexible embeddings, where totally flexible is a simple and natural condition to be added to the classical notion of a flexible curve. This allows to obtain a Viro--Zvonilov type inequality: an upper bound on the number of non-empty ovals of a curve of odd degree. We also digress around a possible definition of non-orientable (totally) flexible curves, for which our method still works and our inequality almost holds. We investigate our method for flexible curves in a quartic to derive a similar bound in two cases.

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