Conchoidal transform of two plane curves

DOI10.1007/S00200-010-0127-ZzbMATH Open1195.14042arXiv0905.3255OpenAlexW3103047881MaRDI QIDQ989609FDOQ989609

Authors: Alberto Albano, Margherita Roggero 

Publication date: 23 August 2010

Published in: Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The conchoid of a plane curve $C$ is constructed using a fixed circle $B$ in the affine plane. We generalize the classical definition so that we obtain a conchoid from any pair of curves $B$ and $C$ in the projective plane. We present two definitions, one purely algebraic through resultants and a more geometric one using an incidence correspondence in $P{P}^{2}imesP{P}^2$. We prove, among other things, that the conchoid of a generic curve of fixed degree is irreducible, we determine its singularities and give a formula for its degree and genus. In the final section we return to the classical case: for any given curve $C$ we give a criterion for its conchoid to be irreducible and we give a procedure to determine when a curve is the conchoid of another.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.3255

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zbMATH Keywords

resultantconchoiddouble planes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Plane and space curves (14H50) Computational aspects of algebraic curves (14Q05) Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus (14H45)

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