The Coolidge-Nagata conjecture holds for curves with more than four cusps

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Publication date: 15 February 2012

Abstract: Let E be a plane rational curve defined over complex numbers which has only locally irreducible singularities. The Coolidge-Nagata conjecture states that E is rectifiable, i.e. it can be transformed into a line by a birational automorphism of the plane. We show that if it is not rectifiable then the tree of the exceptional divisor for its minimal embedded resolution of singularities has at most nine maximal twigs. This settles the conjecture in case E has more than four singular points.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Birational automorphisms, Cremona group and generalizations (14E07) Plane and space curves (14H50) Classical problems, Schubert calculus (14N15)

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