The locus of plane quartics with a hyperflex

DOI10.1090/PROC/13314MaRDI QIDQ2957786zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xuntao Hu

Publication date 30 January 2017

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.07689

zbMATH Keywords

hyperflexplane quartics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Plane and space curves (14H50) Moduli, classification: analytic theory; relations with modular forms (14J15)

Abstract: Using the results of Dalla Piazza, Fiorentino and Salvati Manni, we determine an explicit modular form defining the locus of plane quartics with a hyperflex among all plane quartics. As a result, we provide a direct way to compute the divisor class of the locus of plane quartics with a hyperflex within $overlinemathcal{M}_3$, first obtained by Cukierman in 1989. Moreover, the knowledge of such an explicit modular form also allows us to describe explicitly the boundary of the hyperflex locus in $overlinemathcal{M}_3$. As an example, we show that the locus of banana curves (two irreducible components intersecting at two nodes) is contained in the closure of the hyperflex locus. We also identify an explicit modular form defining the locus of Clebsch quartics and use it to recompute the class of this divisor, first obtained by Ottaviani and Sernesi.

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