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Application of the theory of the discriminant to highly singular plane curves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1999

A. A. DU PLESSIS
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, University of Aarhus, Ny Munkegade, 8000 Aarhus C. Denmark
C. T. C. WALL
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Liverpool, P.O. Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX

Abstract

In this paper we consider reduced curves Γ of fixed degree d in the complex projective plane P2([Copf ]): we study the question of how singular such a curve can be.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
The Cambridge Philosophical Society 1999

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